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Originally posted by Ed Scarboro:
It won't get fixed by gun control. The breakdown in society is the problem. MSNBC is just pushing the democrat plan to ban the AR and then go after semiauto pistols. It's easier to load people onto train cars if they are unarmed.

I've owned AR's for about 5 decades and none of mine have ever ran out and assaulted anyone.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
The choice of gun massacre killers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQzCPq0KSoQ Part of ledvm's Republican agenda, I guess.

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Originally posted by rabbithabit:
Why didn't we have mass shootings back when you could mail order M1 Carbines?

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Originally posted by crbutler:

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Originally posted by rabbithabit:
Why didn't we have mass shootings back when you could mail order M1 Carbines?

We did.

The idea that when 3 or more people are shot it’s a mass shooting is a new one.

There intermittently have been shootings with mass casualties. The fact that we have gotten rid of long term custodial care for the mentally ill and insist that kids who misbehave in school have a right to stay there is what has gotten increased school shootings. Most of these kids dropped out or went to juvenile detention schools in the old days before they felt the need to lash out at their peers.

One can debate the relative merits of the current least restrictive policies we currently use, but that is part of the school violence picture we see today.

As to ending mail order of guns, that had more to do with the Kennedy assassination than anything else.

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Originally posted by rabbithabit:
I did find this but doesn't say what type of rifle.
1965 Highway 101 sniper attack: A 16-year-old stole his father's military rifle and shot at automobiles driving down the highway, killing two and injuring eleven before committing suicide. A third victim died later at the hospital
Do you know of any other mass shooting prior to 1968 where the shooter used a military assault rifle?

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Originally posted by crbutler:
Your initial statement said nothing about a military assault rifle.

Most reporters don't know guns well enough to accurately report what was used, and really it wasn't germaine. Now, the big reason they identify a weapon is to try and further an agenda, as after all, you're dead regardless of whether you were killed with a muzzleloader or a machine gun.

That being said, I suspect many a shooting in the old days was with old military guns... kennedy's assassination being one. Sporterized military rifles being very common in the post war years.

The M16 wasn't invented until the 1960's, after all. We didn't have any assault rifles before that.

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Originally posted by Thomas "Ty" Beaham:

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Originally posted by rabbithabit:
I did find this but doesn't say what type of rifle.
1965 Highway 101 sniper attack: A 16-year-old stole his father's military rifle and shot at automobiles driving down the highway, killing two and injuring eleven before committing suicide. A third victim died later at the hospital
Do you know of any other mass shooting prior to 1968 where the shooter used a military assault rifle?

August 1, 1966

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...Texas_tower_shooting

He was army trained too.


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