And, To Add More Fuel to The Anti-Gun Tirades, We Have Another Shooting
August 17th, (excerpt from Reuters article)
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Two Louisiana sheriff's deputies were killed and two others wounded in a pair of related shootings west of New Orleans on Thursday, and police said they have five people in custody in connection with the incident.
A gunman shot and wounded a St. John Parish deputy while he was directing traffic at about 5 a.m. CDT in an off-site parking lot for the Valero Energy Corp.'s St. Charles refinery, St. John Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre said.
The gunman fled, and officers investigating the incident ended up at a trailer park in LaPlace, about 25 miles west of New Orleans. As they were interviewing two suspects, someone came out of a trailer with an assault weapon and shot dead the two officers, Tregre said.
Further details @:
http://news.yahoo.com/two-officers-killed-two-wounded-louisiana-shooting-142944701--finance.html
I suppose if you looked at it
very objectively, any item used as a weapon in an assault could be labeled "an assault weapon". An ashtray, a 9-iron, a rolling pin, a knife or an automobile, could all be labeled as such under the right circumstances. However... we have a fairly narrow (and
generally accepted) definition of what constitutes an "assault weapon", and it goes something like this:
A firearm capable of launching multiple projectiles with a single activation of the trigger.
That may not be
precisely how
everybody would define the term, but (without beginning an argument over semantics) it's "close enough for government work". I now have to wonder if the weapon used to murder the two deputies was misidentified as an "assault weapon" based on
appearance alone, as so many people (
including LEO's ) are inclined to do. And, if it is truly an assault weapon, I'm certain they had the required federal tax transfer stamp.
Pax...