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To: combjelly who wrote (705663)	3/24/2013 8:32:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578015

Point of full disclosure, I am a huge fan of the above FN weapons. Great combination of lethality combined with high accuracy and low recoil so you can stay on target. You can blather all you want about stopping power, but the ability to accurately put a large number of rounds in the air in a short period of time is pretty much unbeatable unless you are big game hunting. They just aren't very good at that particular task. Not very good at stopping tanks, either.... Which leads one to realize that even if 1K innocent white children were killed, the right would not change their position on guns one iota. So what's the reason for their unwillingness to accept reasonable compromise..........is it just generalized paranoia or paranoia from living in a multi racial/multi cultural nation or unadulterated machismo or a profound sense of entitlement or something not mentioned or all of the above?

To: combjelly who wrote (705663)	3/25/2013 6:45:18 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578015

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.