re: #159 danarchy

I expect this story to make the right wing rounds today.

washingtonexaminer.com

See AR-15’s are needed for self defense! /////

There are a lot of unanswered questions about this incident. The story is that the three now-deceased teens approached the residents in their own front yard, attempted to rob them, and then opened fire. How were the residents able to avoid being shot if the robbers confronted them and fired first? It’s possible of course that they just ran and the bandits missed but it’s something that needs to be determined.
How was one of them able to get his rifle and shoot the three while they remained in the yard? It might have been leaning against the front door for all we know, but this is something we need to find out.
Was it really an “assault weapon,” as described by a neighbor who witnessed the incident? Any scary looking black gun is an “assault weapon” to a lot of people Police have yet to specifically identify the weapon.

Of course ammosexuals will betray their limited intelligence by trumpeting this incident from the mountain-tops, as proof that “assault weapons,” semi-auto rifles with large mags, are somehow essential for self defense. If you really have to use deadly force, you will use whatever weapons come to hand. That might be a rock, a club, or an AR-15 if you have one. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t alternatives (pump shotguns for example) that would work at least as well for that purpose without presenting such a massive risk to society.