When a Glock semi-automatic pistol can shoot 33 rounds without reloading, killing dozens of people

[pnwmom]

in a couple minutes, who -- except for gun apologists -- cares whether the murder weapon was a rifle or a pistol?

The point is that it really doesn't matter which efficiently deadly gun the shooter used; we make it way too easy for extremely lethal weapons to get into the hands of disturbed people.

[MotherPetrie]

1. The NRA cares - the more people guns kill, the more illogical paranoia they can whip up

and they more dumbasses they can get to campaign against their own best interests, i.e. against gun control, to increase the NRA's power.

[spanone]

2. sounds like an assault pistol to me

[KoKo]

3. Do you think Obama will address this once it dies down in the Media?

I would hope he would.

What do YOU think would be a Compromise Solution...if you were an "Adviser for the People" to the Obama Administration on how to move forward on what happened?

What happened Today and Yesterday and Beyond and What is going on with our WARS Overseas?

What would you suggest?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Federal bans on extended clips

Would be a good start.

Federal background checks that at least meet California (I would like tougher ones)

All gun laws have to be federal, and stop the hodgepodge of state laws...

Close the gun show loophole.

That be a start.

Do I expect it? Unicorns have a better chance of farting in the forest.

[pnwmom]

15. I agree. How many bullets could a gun hold in the days the Constitution was written?

I'm sure they never anticipated the killing capacity of the guns we allow today.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. It's not just that.

The gun owners of the day were expected to drill every month with the local militia. Granted, drill rarely included actual shooting. Lead balls were damn expensive. (So were the guns themselves). In fact, some of it included plenty of beer and food...

Our modern court, has in my view, eviscerated the well regulated with Heller.

In the modern day this drilling requirement describes the State Guard to a damn T.

We need to go back to well regulated...that means armed forces and police. Private citizens should be licensed. And as I said in a few other places, all civilian guns, once is practical, must receive smart gun technology, to literally match them to shooter.

Will this happen? Unicorns have a better chance of farting in the forest.

[KoKo]

18. The "hodgepodge" of state laws would be a good first effort...

also...later ..why do we need reapeating assault weapons..(rifles, guns) to kill deer, coyotes or protect our homes from an intruder.

I wish more attention could be paid to this. Taking out two classrooms of little kids in a way that their remains need time to be identified seems to be beyond the pale of what the 2nd Amendment put in the protection of "Right to Have Arms." (but, then I realize it also concerned Militias) ...but, they weren't thinking about Repeating Assault Weapons with belts of ammunition clips so that it could be rapidfire for mass killings.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. My solution to that

You want a bushmaster? Sure...make the selector function to two settings, safe and single shot.

Sure, looks means, but you should be able to bring that deer down with one shot.

As is, the M1-Garand, though semi auto, has a five round capacity, which is also a better round.

Some of our hunters like the macho looking guns...so they want them? Sure, lousy round, single shot.

[KoKo]

24. Good Points...but, can we hope to get to a society that doesn't want to

look so MACHO in their own cowardly behavior that they need an Assault Weapon to take down a deer or shoot a rabbit?

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. In single shot it is nowhere close to assault, well except in looks

And they are already using bushmasters and the rest in the series to hunt rabbits and squirrels. A .22 would work.

[Andy823]

4. I agree, and I am a gun owner

We have to get tougher on stopping this insanity. I was for the assault weapon ban, and think it should be the law again. I also think that the sale of large magazines and clips should be stopped. I have never understood the need to be able to shoot 33 rounds from a hand gun, or rifle, without reloading unless it's for the military during war time.
There are to many unstable people out there who should never be able to have access such weapons.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

5. The only reasons to have a magazine that big are mass murder and combat

The only legit reason is combat

[ManiacJoe]

19. Actually the only reason is target shooting.

Extended mags on pistols are unwieldy and prone to jamming. To suggest using them in combat is laughable.

[Skittles]

8. you sir are a gun owner and not a gun nut

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. And the military does not use extra large capacity magazines.

[Honeycombe8]

6. That sort of weapon has no business being in the public or owned by a private citizen. It has ONE

purpose: killing people.

[aquart]

7. Yes.

And I would be fine jailing anyone who would sell it.

[TPaine7]

9. You care, that's who

Not that it's a big deal or anything, but you are the one who made an issue about the type of weapon it was. You even started a thread about it.

pnwmom (41,427 posts)
41. A parent with a pistol would have been no match against this guy with his

assault weapon. The parent would be George Zimmerman, not Superman.

Statistically, allowing guns around schools would result in more accidental shootings than it would prevent crimes like today's.

pnwmom (41,427 posts)
92. Reports are that there was a .223 caliber rifle seized.
And that many rounds of gunshots were heard. It was most likely a rifle with a magazine.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-14/connecticut-shooting-leaves-27-dead-including-pupils-ap.html

The AP reported that the attacker in Connecticut is a 20- year-old man. A law-enforcement official in Washington said that one gun used in the attacks is a .223-caliber rifle, the news service reported. The official spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because the source was not authorized to speak on the record about the developing investigation.


http://johnston.patch.com/articles/27-dead-in-connecticut-school-shooting-aa42c099

The alleged gunman, whom reports have identified as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, a former Quinnipiac University student, was armed with four guns and a high-powered assault rifle.

pnwmom (41,427 posts)
117. The "Sig Sauer" has been called the "Rolls Royce of assault rifles."

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-gun-did-the-sandy-hook-shooter-use-2012-12

The shooter was using one Sig Sauer and one Glock, according to CNN. Glock doesn't make an assault style rifle, but Sig Sauer is the Rolls Royce of assault rifle producers.

[cthulu2016]

11. That's a fair cop.

[TPaine7]

12. Thanks for the civility.

It stands out today, LOL!

[pnwmom]

16. That was before I learned there WAS such a thing as a semi-automatic pistol

that could fire 33 shots before needing reloading.

Thanks for pointing me in that direction.

I still don't think that arming the parents and teachers with their own semi-automatic pistols is the solution. In fact, that teacher was the owner of the gun that killed her. It didn't work out for her, obviously.

[KoKo]

20. Agree...I didn't know that either. What possible reason would one need to own one of these

or even those repeating Assault Rifles unless one wanted to create mass killings of animal, people life?

[TPaine7]

23. It's certainly not a 100% thing, but if it were MY child, I would have preferred that a teacher or

other responsible adult at that school be armed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Because we all know the cross fire would not hit anybody

But the bad guy!!!!



I love that macho fantasy.

[rDigital]

30. Where do you derive your expertise on firearms and defense? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. Among other things from having been in real shootouts between the cartels

And the army... You get really good at cover and all that real fast. My job was to take care of the wounded as a medic. And I had one in particular, very close call.


And we own weapons too...

And some in my family are now retired cops.

So my knowledge comes from this silliness called real life.

[zappaman]

39. 'Among other things from having been in real shootouts between the cartels"

[TPaine7]

32. Macho fantasy?!!

First of all, I think macho is a masculine term and the people who were running to gunfire were women; I've read that the principal was killed when she tried to stop him and that all of the adults killed were women.

Second, this wasn't a fantasy at all, it was real life. She went beyond the call of duty to charge a shooting lunatic--and you are happy that she had to do so unarmed, because it's possible that someone might have gotten hit by crossfire?!!

But even if it was a guy, it was well beyond macho. And it was not done to aggrandize anyone's ego; it was done out of horrifying necessity. If you would put down that cartoon lens, you might be able to look past the silly stereotypes to reality.

Let's apply this type of logic to another subject.

Doctor: If we do the operation, we have a better chance of stopping your cancer than by any other means.

You: Because we all know that no one ever dies or is injured in surgery!

A gun would have given the heroic principal and other women in that school a fighting chance against that maniac. It is the single best way to stop an active shooter, as a general rule. While I am sure that there are many who would want these women to have to engage in hand-to-rifle combat in defense of a child they loved, I am not among them. And of course there are associated risks, there are risks with everything.

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. I am sorry, but guns every where will not make things

Better.

It is a fantasy that more guns are a solution.

It is also an NRA and gun bunny talking point.

We are no longer tolerant of this idiocy.

And using the death of women who were protecting their kids from this man to push your guns every where is just the lowest of the low. We need responsible gun laws, not this, more gun guns for everyone! Oh happy joy!

[TPaine7]

34. I am sorry, but content free false and emotional language like

"guns every where" and "fantasy" and "NRA" and "gun bunny" and "talking point" and "idiocy" and "lowest of the low" and "guns everywhere" and "responsible gun laws" and "more gun guns for everyone" and "Oh happy joy" aren't going to convince anyone of anything who isn't emotionally caught up.

Substance free emotion like that gets you stupid and/or ineffective laws.

Your post 26 contained not one valid, rational point. When I pointed that out, you spouted more pat phrases and emotion.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. You repeat NRA talking points, divorced from reality

I will call you on it.

[TPaine7]

36. BS. I addressed exactly what you said. Unless the NRA has a psychic/prophet

on staff, they cannot possibly have an answer to the specific things you said.

I challenge you to find the NRA saying anything about how "macho" is masculine and all of the adult victims were women, or that the principal took this killer on barehanded.

I saw the NRA quoted in a story saying that they had no comment until the facts are all clear; they won't be talking about this incident until the dust is fully settled.

Nothing I said came from the NRA. You know as well as I do that if you were in the principal's position, you would rather have a handgun than a fist. You might not care enough for the children to want them better defended, but if YOU had to face that nut, you would want a weapon. That's a fact unless you are an extreme pacifist or a very unusual person.

Now you can try to dismiss that reality by calling it an "NRA talking point" until you turn blue in the face. But anyone not caught up in emotion will see through your tactic. You'll even see through it if you ever calm down.

Reality is not an NRA talking point.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. You repeated NRA talking points

And you don't even realize it, you delicate flower you. Stop pretending.

Guns everywhere and concealed carry *is* an NRA talking point.

[TPaine7]

38. .

"NRA talking points"... "delicate flower"..."Guns everywhere"...



Concealed carry is a legal policy—it's no more a "talking point" that the Brady background check system is a "talking point."

Now "guns everywhere" is a talking point. And a lie. The NRA doesn't want guns everywhere. They don't want them in the homes of convicted felons. And I am sure that, like me, they don't want them in prison cells or mental hospital rooms.

See how I actually answered what you said??? I even went past the REAL "talking points" to find the shred of an actual point there and address it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. That's an extended mag

In reality, standard magazines are not that large.

The usual types will defend the magazines so they don't have to reload as often at the range.

I am impressed, they unbalance the gun as well.

Having a standard mag, 10-12 rounds depending on state, few 15 (why we need federal standards) should be good enough for the range or plinking cans.

[rDigital]

28. Always confront ambiguity. nt

[NoMoreWarNow]

10. definitely that's one thing we can work to change

easier than other gun control, for sure

[RomneyLies]

21. If we implemented a $10/grain tax on gunpowder

Those 33 rounds would cost $1,353 in JUST federal gun powder taxes, minimum.

[rDigital]

29. Good luck with that. nt

[Odin2005]

40. Semiautomatic pistols should be banned, IMO.

If you are defending yourself one or two shots should be enough to shoot the bastard dead, 33 rounds is just massive overkill, literally.