Shooting at CT Elementary School. WTF AMERICA?!

[Don Coyote]

Suu,
assault rifle? 
perhaps you mean 'scary rifle'?

to my understanding the military adopted the term BECAUSE it sounds menacing.

[Elder Iptuous]

the term is vague at best, and is useful only in media sensation to induce hoplophobia.
the fact is, a crazy and/or evil person just killed a bunch of kids. period.

[Elder Iptuous]

Suu,
assault rifle? 
perhaps you mean 'scary rifle'?

to my understanding the military adopted the term BECAUSE it sounds menacing.

it's just kind of a translation of sturmghewer (sp?) which transliterates as storm rifle indicating the military tactics being employed.
the main feature was simply a smaller round than a battle rifle.

[Don Coyote]

Suu,
assault rifle? 
perhaps you mean 'scary rifle'?

to my understanding the military adopted the term BECAUSE it sounds menacing.

it's just kind of a translation of sturmghewer (sp?) which transliterates as storm rifle indicating the military tactics being employed.
the main feature was simply a smaller round than a battle rifle.

I'll buy that.
You know what we call an assault rifle in the army?
a rifle or a weapon or by the military designation.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Relevant, maybe. http://www.alternet.org/story/24796/a_brief_history_of_rage,_murder_and_rebellion

[Cain]

Possible, but unlikely.  Ames case studies for school shootings were ones where the students themselves were involved, which does not appear to be the case here.

[Suu]

With assault rifles.

FUCKING ASSAULT RIFLES.

WHY ARE PEOPLE ALLOWED TO HAVE THOSE?! PISTOLS, OKAY, SHOTGUNS, SURE...BUT ASSAULT RIFLES?! COME ON.

assault rifles are just rifles with a pistol grip.

Semantics. Kids are dead.

[Don Coyote]

With assault rifles.

FUCKING ASSAULT RIFLES.

WHY ARE PEOPLE ALLOWED TO HAVE THOSE?! PISTOLS, OKAY, SHOTGUNS, SURE...BUT ASSAULT RIFLES?! COME ON.

assault rifles are just rifles with a pistol grip.

Semantics. Kids are dead.

those kids would still be dead of he had used a semiautomatic hunting rifle.
dead is dead.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

This is awful.

[Elder Iptuous]

With assault rifles.

FUCKING ASSAULT RIFLES.

WHY ARE PEOPLE ALLOWED TO HAVE THOSE?! PISTOLS, OKAY, SHOTGUNS, SURE...BUT ASSAULT RIFLES?! COME ON.

assault rifles are just rifles with a pistol grip.

Semantics. Kids are dead.

wait. so what's your position here?  it now sounds like you're saying that what was used is not the point, however in the previous post, you were indicating that if we only had the assault weapon ban in place, this would have been avoided.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Possible, but unlikely.  Ames case studies for school shootings were ones where the students themselves were involved, which does not appear to be the case here.

True.

Was thinking "the cognitive dissonance suddenly strikes on a very personal level, and you realize that you've been screwed hard by your own dominant ideology" could have been a thing that happened to dad.

[Suu]

With assault rifles.
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FUCKING ASSAULT RIFLES.

WHY ARE PEOPLE ALLOWED TO HAVE THOSE?! PISTOLS, OKAY, SHOTGUNS, SURE...BUT ASSAULT RIFLES?! COME ON.

assault rifles are just rifles with a pistol grip.

Semantics. Kids are dead.

wait. so what's your position here?  it now sounds like you're saying that what was used is not the point, however in the previous post, you were indicating that if we only had the assault weapon ban in place, this would have been avoided.

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Well, since you clarified my stupidity involving military grade weaponry, I guess it doesnr fuxkong matter, does it?

Kids are dead. Regardless of what was used. Savvy?

[LMNO]

Perhaps it could be shown that since assault rifles have a greater number of positions available for an accurate shot, fewer children may have been injured/killed if the rifle had a standard, rather than pistol, grip?

Wow.  Humans are really good at avoiding emotions.

[Elder Iptuous]

<olive branch>
i think we are kicking each other in the pattellas.
sorry, Suu.

[Suu]

It's all good, was a misunderstanding. Also Amtrak WiFi is ass on my phone.