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[buckman]

Key word there is " kook"
It's not about the weapon
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by buckman

It's not about the weapon
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Then please enlighten me. If the weapon plays no role in the outcome, why did all those cops (who have standard issue handguns) run into that school with rifles? How come when I was with the USMC, I never once told my gyus to leave their rifles back at base and just bring handguns?

The kook is the biggest factor, you are correct. But please, tell me what's factually incorrect with the following sentence?

The more lethal the weapon, the more kids the kook can kill before the good guys get there.

How is that wrong?

[buckman]

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The kook is the biggest factor, you are correct. But please, tell me what's factually incorrect with the following sentence?

The more lethal the weapon, the more kids the kook can kill before the good guys get there.

How is that wrong?[/QUOTE]

Think suicide bomber . Your right this kook chose an assault style rifle but your premise that less kids would have died if he didn't illegally access this weapon is hypothetical
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by buckman

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The kook is the biggest factor, you are correct. But please, tell me what's factually incorrect with the following sentence?

The more lethal the weapon, the more kids the kook can kill before the good guys get there.

How is that wrong?

your premise that less kids would have died if he didn't illegally access this weapon is hypothetical
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So why did those cops storm the school with rifles instead of handguns?

Yes, I am hypothesizing. The fact that those cops entered the school with rifles instead of handguns, would seem to support my hypothesis. The cops did not know what they were facing. Yet just about every one of them chose a rifle instead of a pistol? Why?

If a rifle provides no tactical advantage over a handgun, why did they all have rifles?

[TheSpecialist]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Then please enlighten me. If the weapon plays no role in the outcome, why did all those cops (who have standard issue handguns) run into that school with rifles? How come when I was with the USMC, I never once told my gyus to leave their rifles back at base and just bring handguns?

The kook is the biggest factor, you are correct. But please, tell me what's factually incorrect with the following sentence?

The more lethal the weapon, the more kids the kook can kill before the good guys get there.

How is that wrong?

Since 9-11 and the LA bank heist most police departments have issued patrol rifles or carbines with homeland security money so that the cops are never outgunned again. That said if you were in your house and an armed intruder broke in, with say a shotgun, you would be more comfortable going up against him with a pistol? I know I would want a semi automatic carbine made for CQB, the best chance for myself and my family to survive. This is why they went into the school with "rifles" up against a "kook" armed with pistols.