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'I'm saying this as someone who loves guns': Texas mass shooting witness calls for automatic weapons ban
DailyMail ^ | May 7, 2023 | Sophie Mann

Posted on 05/07/2023 5:43:33 PM PDT by backpacker_c

Steven Spainhouer, one of the first people on scene at the mass shooting in Allen, Texas, has called for M4s and AR-15s to be removed from the streets despite admitting he is a 'gun lover.'

The former police and army officer said that it is long pastime automatic weapons were removed from everyday public life, on account of the rising number of mass shootings.

'I'm a gun lover, I have guns. But these M4s, AR-15s, they've got to get off the streets or this is going to keep happening, and we've got to stop that at some point,' he continued.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ar15s; banglist; firearms; machineguns; nope; nothappening; texas
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This was a person who was reported to be one of the first people who went to try to help victims and found a dead child with a missing face.

Now, he claims he a gun lover, was a police officer, and an army official, and yet, he's blaming an automatic ar-15 as the weapon used was in the allen mall shooting.

He's now doing interviews and putting out comments on social media, calling for a ban on ar15s and other automatic weapons.

Apparently, it appears he doesn't know what he's talking about with guns, considering his claimed background of being a gun lover, and a police and army person.

Most ar15 style firearms in civilian hads are semi-auto, and it from the videos of the shooting, it appears the shooter was using a semi automatic ar15.

Yet, he's likely to be promoted everywhere because he advocates for gun control, and the push will be a general ban on ar15 style firearms, full auto or not.

1 posted on 05/07/2023 5:43:34 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

At best he’s a Fudd. More likely virtue signalling, hoping for a financial reward.


2 posted on 05/07/2023 5:46:36 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: backpacker_c

Paid for PR people - just like David Hogg.

We live in a manufactured society,


3 posted on 05/07/2023 5:46:39 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: backpacker_c

Here’s what I heard from a patriot this week before the Allen texas thing

I have guns. I’ve had. Guns my whole life

People piss me off they piss me off in traffic

Never did I ever think I’m gonna shoot that guy


4 posted on 05/07/2023 5:47:21 PM PDT by stanne
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To: backpacker_c

“former police and army officer”

He means everyone but him... He is special and can be trusted above the laws. He WILL NOT comply equally.


5 posted on 05/07/2023 5:47:59 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: backpacker_c

Automatic weapons are already basically illegal.


6 posted on 05/07/2023 5:48:03 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: backpacker_c; marktwain

Automatic weapons require a Class III license

Do they not?


7 posted on 05/07/2023 5:49:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Openurmind

(He means everyone but him)

You have discerned correctly, young Luke.


8 posted on 05/07/2023 5:50:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Automatic weapons are already basically illegal.

That was my first thought.

9 posted on 05/07/2023 5:50:40 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: backpacker_c

This moron with the drugstore cowboy hat also said that mental health had nothing to do with this shooting that the AR-15 conducted the entire shooting by itself. This jerk is a fraud looking for hero status, IMHO.


10 posted on 05/07/2023 5:50:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We didn't have all this violence when we had God in our schools and AMERICA WAS GREAT!)
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To: backpacker_c

Seminar gun-banner.


11 posted on 05/07/2023 5:50:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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Yep...He’s a moron.


12 posted on 05/07/2023 5:52:01 PM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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That could be how we know if he is legit or not. Most gun owners and former police know this fact.


13 posted on 05/07/2023 5:52:20 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: SaveFerris

Yes, plus other local hoops to be jumped through depending on locale.


14 posted on 05/07/2023 5:52:41 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: backpacker_c

Stop and Frisk.


15 posted on 05/07/2023 5:52:47 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: backpacker_c

But the shooter wasn’t using an automatic weapon.


16 posted on 05/07/2023 5:53:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: backpacker_c

Stop and Frisk.


17 posted on 05/07/2023 5:53:40 PM PDT by Paladin2
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> The former police and army officer said that it is long pastime automatic weapons were removed from everyday public life <

Does this guy even know what an automatic weapon is? Does the author know?

I guess it doesn’t matter anymore. Facts don’t matter anymore. Let’s just seize every weapon that can be arbitrarily classified as “automatic”. After all, seizing all forms of alcohol during Prohibition stopped alcohol abuse.

No one, especially criminals, were able to get booze back in those days.
Right?


18 posted on 05/07/2023 5:53:47 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SaveFerris

Correct.


19 posted on 05/07/2023 5:53:53 PM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: backpacker_c

AUTOMATICS are already banned in most every state or in some you can get a federal license last I ever knew. So, banning something that is already banned will not stop these shootings. Ban all the guns you like, THE ONLY GUNS THAT WILL BE BANNED ARE THOSE THAT ARE IN THE HANDS OF THOSE OF US WHO BUY THEM LEGALLY. Then they are registered on that paper you fill out to get one at the gun shop. I have seen several programs about ghost guns being made in the Philippines and shipped either here or Mexico for shipment here to be sold cheaper. They have no S# on them. Murder someone, ditch the gun, no one knows, even if they find the gun. It is untraceable. There are literally thousands of them coming across the border now. WE are the ones they will take up, because they know we bought them. The crooks, thieves, gang bangers, mob, don’t buy their guns at the gun shop.


20 posted on 05/07/2023 5:53:59 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (The SIGNS that Christ spoke of in Matt 24, Luke 21 & Mark 13, are converging together in these days.)
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