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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 2/21/2018 11:57 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 20:52:48 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

John, I agree with you that the problem isn't really guns. All of them
can kill. The problem is more a mindset and fascination with military
type assault weapons. They are, by a wide margin, the weapon of choice
by these sick people.

It is just the most popular rifle sold in the US today, by a wide
margin. We still have more people killed with bare hands, feet fists
etc than all rifles combined so it is not really the major killer.

How many schools have had innocent children killed with bare hands or feet?

Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 *children* between six and seven years old,
as well as six adult staff members using a Bushmaster XM-15, an AR-15
style military type rifle.

Last week Cruz killed 17 people in less than 7 minutes using an AR-15,
military style weapon.

Here's a more complete list of mass shootings involving AR-15 type rifles:

Feb. 24, 1984:
Tyrone Mitchell, 28, used an AR-15, a Stoeger 12-gauge shotgun and a
Winchester 12-gauge shotgun to kill two and wound 12 at 49th Street
Elementary School in Los Angeles before killing himself.

Oct. 7, 2007:
Tyler Peterson, 20, used an AR-15 to kill six and injure one at an
apartment in Crandon, Wis., before killing himself.

June 20, 2012:
James Eagan Holmes, 24, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber Smith and
Wesson rifle with a 100-round magazine, a 12-gauge Remington shotgun and
two .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistols to kill 12 and injure 58 at
a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.

Dec. 14, 2012:
Adam Lanza, 20, used an AR-15-style rifle, a .223-caliber Bushmaster, to
kill 27 people — his mother, 20 students and six teachers — in Newtown,
Conn., before killing himself.

June 7, 2013:
John Zawahri, 23, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber rifle and a
..44-caliber Remington revolver to kill five and injure three at a home
in Santa Monica, Calif., before he was killed.

March 19, 2015:
Justin Fowler, 24, used an AR-15 to kill one and injure two on a street
in Little Water, N.M., before he was killed.

May 31, 2015:
Jeffrey Scott Pitts, 36, used an AR-15 and .45-caliber handgun to kill
two and injure two at a store in Conyers, Ga., before he was killed.

Oct. 31, 2015:
Noah Jacob Harpham, 33, used an AR-15, a .357-caliber revolver and a 9mm
semi-automatic pistol to kill three on a street in Colorado Springs,
Colo., before he was killed.

Dec. 2, 2015:
Syed Rizwyan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, 28 and 27, used two AR-15-style,
..223-caliber Remington rifles and two 9 mm handguns to kill 14 and
injure 21 at his workplace in San Bernardino, Calif., before they were
killed.

June 12, 2016:
Omar Mateen, 29, used an AR-15 style rifle (a Sig Sauer MCX), and a 9mm
Glock semi-automatic pistol to kill 49 people and injure 50 at an
Orlando nightclub before he was killed.

Oct. 1, 2017:
Stephen Paddock, 64, used a stockpile of guns including an AR-15 to kill
58 people and injure hundreds at a music festival in Las Vegas before he
killed himself.

Nov. 5, 2017:
Devin Kelley, 26, used an AR-15 style Ruger rifle to kill 26 people at a
church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before he was killed.

Feb. 14, 2018:
Police say Nikolas Cruz, 19, used an AR-15-style rifle to kill at least
17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.