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News is reporting "Automatic" weapons. Certainly a tragedy and only serves to reinforce our personal right to protect ourselves, family and others. My prayers sent.
News is reporting "Automatic" weapons. Certainly a tragedy and only serves to reinforce our personal right to protect ourselves, family and others. My prayers sent.
The owner of a nearby barbecue restaurant described a frantic scene in which the gunman pulled up and immediately shot a man on a motorcycle, then charged into the IHOP, where the Guard members were meeting.
Ralph Swagler said he grabbed his own weapon, but said it was too late to stop the shooter.
"I wish I had shot at him but he was going in the IHOP," said Swagler, who owns Locals BBQ & Grill. "But when he came at me, when somebody is pointing an automatic weapon at you — you can't believe the firepower, the kind of rounds coming out of that weapon."
Here's what I heard-
someone said that he was standing there, and then just spun in a circle, and the bullets kept flying. That's why i think it was an automatic.
which means- current gun laws should have made it impossible to obtain that kind of gun. reimplementing the "assault weapons ban" would not have done anything because he didn't have an assault weapon- he had an automatic rifle.
come on people- everyone who sees a rifle says "AK-47". unless you know the difference.
Apparently from recent articles the gunman was targeting a table of uniformed servicemen/women. He shot ever single one of them. That's just great because everyone knows that a uniformed serviceman is either on his way to or from a base and thus is disarmed so they absolutely cannot defend themselves. Things like this make me want to reconsider my employment with the military.
Apparently from recent articles he did NOT target the uniformed servicement. But the rationale for that statement appears to only be "because half of those injured or killed weren't uniformed servicemen." Not very definitive if you ask me.