"FDR" wrote in message
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"-=jd=-" wrote in message
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On Wed 16 Feb 2005 07:50:06p, "FDR"

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"clifto" wrote in message
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FDR wrote:
Well tell me how the gun gets from the manufacturer to the
terrorist?

Well, tell me a few of those ways

stores,

So if stores didn't sell assault weapons that would eliminate that
source.

I see, you're one of those wild-eyed fantasy boys who believes that if
all
guns disappeared, there'd be no killing.

There wou;dn't have been a Columbine.


Well, let's see... What could have also been used to the same effect in
a
situation like Columbine?
most any combination of:
shotgun

BS.

bolt-action rifle

BS

semi-auto .22

BS

black-powder revolver

BS

cross-bow
sword
etc., etc., etc.

BS, BS and more BS



Gotta agree with jd on this one.

1) Like the old NRA bumper sticker quite correctly says: "If you outlaw guns
(and this can be applied to many things), then only outlaws will have guns".

2) People have been killing one another very effectively for milennia
without the need of a firearm of any sort. In fact, the lunatic weapon of
choice would seem to be a knife/machete/sword or that ilk.

3) There were no "assault rifles" used at the Columbine shootings. The
closest to an assault weapon would have been the 9mm semi-auto handgun used
by Dylan.

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What they carried:
Dylan -- Intratec TEC-DC-9 (9-mm semi-automatic handgun) attached to a strap
slung over his shoulder (under coat), Stevens 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun
(barrel sawed down to approximately 23 inches, initially half-hidden in
Dylan's cargos).

Eric -- 10-shot Hi-Point model 995 carbine rifle on a strap (under coat),
Savage-Springfield 12-gauge pump shotgun he called 'Arlene' (named after a
Doom character - initially in one of the duffels carried to the top of the
grassy knoll -- stock and barrel sawed off, reducing the entire gun to 26
inches).

The sawed-off weapons were so short that firing repeatedly from them caused
their hands to bleed on the practice range initially. They apparently
acclimitized to the weapons over the months preceding the shootings. Both
gunmen also carried several knives, but they did not use them on April 20.

The shooters named their pipe bombs. Four bombs are mentioned on Eric's
website, along with their specs. 'Vengeance' (pictured at bottom) and
'Atlanta' were found at the Klebold residence when police searched it."