Newtown massacre documents released

[Michchamp]

Article.

"The gunman who killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school fired 154 rounds in less than 5 minutes, selecting high capacity magazines from a home arsenal stocked with swords, knives and a cache of guns, officials said."
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The reporting in the trib is obviously less than fully informative. It did make the gun nuts upset, as evident from the comments (not that they have anything legitimate to gripe about). I also don't get why they seem so self-satisfied for getting into semantics over the terms used in the article: did a half-dozen firearms, swords, spears, knives, etc. count as an "arsenal"? WHO CARES?

But still... no real use for an AR-15 for the average Joe, except to kill other people. If you're in a "well-regulated militia" you could probably have one. So why does an upper-middle class Connecticut housewife with a mentally deranged son need several? And high-capacity magazine? again... no need for that unless you're on a battlefield.

 

[Michchamp]

man... I never saw the other pics of the kid... gives me the creeps. Looks like death personified. What the hell was the mother thinking?

at some point your right to have whatever weapons you want obviously becomes an assymetric risk to the public at large; it's the same thing as keeping wild animals. You want to see them? Go to a zoo. Or move to Africa and be a game warden. Or move far enough from other people that no one cares about you and/or can be harmed by your poor decision-making abilities.

 

[johnny2x2x]

154 rounds in 5 minutes from his AR-15 then he used his pistol on himself. The Right was distributing made up information several weeks ago that said he didn;t use the Bushmaster as his primary weapon. Idiots. Any number of gun control laws could have either prevented this all together or made it much less severe.