Ravenwood - 02/16/05 06:30 AM
This didn't take long. The gun grabbers are already cheering the shooting at a shopping mall in New York. It gives them ammunition to call for more gun bans, a fight they have been losing badly in recent years.
United States Senator Charles E. Schumer yesterday called for the renewal of the assault weapons ban, which lapsed in September.Just like sports cars are made for mowing down random pedestrians quickly. Schumer, along with Feinstein, is one of the most detestable advocates of gun control, so it comes as no surprise that he would be one of the first to jump at the chance. Nevermind that the gun used in the shooting is not a so-called "assault weapon", and lacks the evil nasty looking features defined by the now expired 1994 law. If it was considered an "assault weapon", it would have clearly been covered by the state ban which mirrors the federal ban."My hope, my plea is that we will understand that assault weapons are not made for self-defense, they are not made for hunting," he said. "People who use these weapons want to kill a lot of random people quickly."
What's more, had the citizens of New York not been severely restricted from carrying concealed firearms, one of them might have saved the state the time and expense of a criminal trial. (Of if Best Buy wasn't so anti-gun that they prevent managers and employees from carrying a gun or even keeping one in their car.)
Personally, I don't take chances and carry my sidearm every time I shop at the mall.
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Do you know what rifle the guy used? I haven't found a single article that mentions it by name. It's always "assault rifle" or "assault-type rifle" or "assault weapon".
Posted by: mikeh at February 16, 2005 6:41 AMAccording to the New York Times, it was a hesse-47, a clone of the AK-47.
Posted by: Ravenwood at February 16, 2005 7:32 AMThanks for the info. I should have come to you first. I'd say they were awfully lucky that only two people were injured, especially if he had 60 rounds, like some papers say.
Posted by: mikeh at February 16, 2005 8:01 AMI think that the Assault Weapon used by more Americans than any other is the M-16. So this guy's assertion is that soldiers "want to kill a lot of random people quickly."
Actually, I think that probably is his belief. Never mind.
Posted by: Phelps at February 16, 2005 12:35 PMApparently, the shooter had a fascination with the Columbine Shootings. You realize what this means, right? We must put a ban on all Michael Moore propaganda documentaries.
Posted by: Dan Newbanks at February 16, 2005 12:52 PMPhelps,
The M-16 is an assault rifle, not an "assault weapon". A semi-auto AR-15 - a civilian variant of the M-16 - is the "assault weapon". But even then only when it has a flash hider, bayonet lugs, collapsable stock, or one of the other evil features.
Posted by: Ravenwood at February 16, 2005 1:07 PMYeah, I know -- but I was using this yahoo's definitions, and even by that he's a hopeless hopolophobe who equates "person with a gun" and "blood-raged maniac random murderer."
Posted by: Phelps at February 16, 2005 1:12 PMI told you this made the news the day of the shooting, didn't I?
Posted by: Da Goddess at February 17, 2005 2:47 AMYes.
Posted by: Ravenwood at February 17, 2005 8:13 AMI think they classify any repeating firearm as an "assault weapon" these days. What those idiots don't realize is that a decent shot with a Winchester 30-30 lever-action could probably cause more mayhem than most people can with a semi-auto. And the shots would be fired almost as rapidly.
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