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To: Lane3 who wrote (57785)	2/23/2018 5:40:26 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 363286

As opposed to the other weapons that have been used. Let's take Columbine as an example. From the WIkipedia... On the day of the massacre, Harris was equipped with a 12-gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun (which he discharged a total of 25 times) and a Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9 mm carbine with thirteen 10-round magazines (which he fired a total of 96 times). [35] Klebold was equipped with a 9×19mm Intratec TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun with one 52-, one 32-, and one 28-round magazine and a 12-gauge Stevens 311D double-barreled sawed-off shotgun. Klebold primarily fired the TEC-9 handgun for a total of 55 times, while he discharged a total of 12 rounds from his double-barreled shotgun. So yes, shotguns were present and used. But not nearly as much as the semi-automatic weapons. Most of the injuries and deaths were from the semi-automatics and not the shotguns. They also had nearly 100 bombs. IIRC, none of them resulted in injuries or deaths. We've been talking about schoolkids here. There have been two instances this century. And both used AR-15s. Small sample, but it is consistent with the other mass killings in this century. Columbine didn't involve AR-15s, but they were less commonly used in the last century in mass killings in general.