“The liberty of any person to own an assault weapon and a high-capacity magazine is second to the right of my son to his life.”
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“The liberty of any person to own an assault weapon and a high-capacity magazine is second to the right of my son to his life.”
This poor man. I would have little purpose to awake if I lost my children. No person need a automatic weapon. Thank you for the blog.
Didn’t they find out that the AR-15 wasn’t even used in this shooting? But it was in the trunk the whole time?
@Bill…
This email has been appearing in many area inboxes lately. It gained traction when police reported that a gun was found locked in the trunk of Lanza’s car and, all of a sudden, that gun became the assault weapon that had been attributed to the bulk of the killings. Police reported, however, that Lanza took three weapons inside the school — a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and two handguns, a Sig Sauer 9mm and a Glock 10mm.
There was a gun found in Lanza’s car, but it was a shotgun. The primary weapon used in the Dec. 14 attack, said Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance, “was a Bushmaster AR-15 assault-type weapon.”
There was so much misinformation about the guns that Connecticut police issued an update on Jan. 23 confirming their original report, according to Snopes.com, a nonpartisan fact-finding website.
“Police provided details in [previous] news conferences, but wanted to eliminate any confusion or misinformation,” the update stated. “Police said they found a Bushmaster .223-caliber model XM15-E with high capacity 30-round clips, a Glock 10mm handgun and a Sauer P226 9mm handgun inside the school. Police also searched Lanza’s car, which was in the parking lot, and found an Izhmash Canta-12 12-gauge shotgun.”
http://members.jacksonville.com/news/premium-news/2013-01-31/story/fact-check-misinformation-over-sandy-hook-shooting-wont-go-away
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/newtown.asp