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To: combjelly who wrote (705663)3/25/2013 6:45:18 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1578294
 
It may have been as little as two minutes (although other sources say otherwise) from the time the call was logged to the time the first cop showed up. It wasn't two minutes from the time of the first shot to the time when he shot himself.

According to your own link globalresearch.ca the shooting was occuring at 9:34 (doesn't give a precise beginning, it could have been earlier), and ended 93:38:15. So that is at least 4 minutes, maybe 5 or more.

Assault weapon is not a meaningless category under these circumstances.

Sure it is. Take a brown wooden semi-auto rifle with no flash suppressor or bayonet lug, or other not very meaningful design feature giving it a military appearance, and no one calls it an assault rifle, but its functionally near identical to many weapons that are called assault rifles.

And at the ranges many of these shootings take place a pistol is also reasonable effective. Some mass shooters simply carry multiple pistols, they don't even have to take .5 to 4 seconds to reload. Or with one weapon they can just reload, it doesn't take long. Its not "assault weapon's" that's relevant here, its any semi-auto (or potentially but less likely other methods such as pump or lever action which can also be fired rapidly) with a detachable magazine.
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