AR 15 and it's devastating effects....

[busterbrown]

and the fact it was purchased legally and with ease, by a nut who worked for a security company which contacted for the Feds, (strong background checks) and who was being monitored by the FBI?

IMO... Most Important Facts concerning this horrible event.

[msongs]

1. the purpose of guns is to kill people. any other use is just dodging the issue nt

[aikoaiko]

3. Sometimes that is what it takes to defend yourself.

[busterbrown]

4. Huh? Against what...

An invasion?

[aikoaiko]

6. Home invasion, sure.

[busterbrown]

13. Oh and so if everyone on the block has an AR-15

we’ll all be safe? Please!! Are you reading this from an NRA Directive?

[CincyDem]

8. What would be an example of those "Sometimes" that require this kind of firepower ?

[Kang Colby]

10. See below.

Armed home invader is shot by teen with AK-47. Armed home invader's accomplice is charged with murder for participating in a felony that led to a death.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2016/06/01/unknown-man-shot-dead-byram-home/85265112/

[CincyDem]

15. Thanks for sharing.

Great point. While my familiarity with the legendary AK-47 likely pales in comparison to yours, it seems as if there are many weapons that are capable of firing a single shot, as was the case in the example you provided.

In response to a poster's comment that said (referencing the shooters AR-15), in effect, sometimes you need the firepower like that.

So in the example that you provided, of the teen defending his home with a single shot from an AK-47, is that the only gun that would have provided his security ? Or is it just a convenient coincidence and any gun would have done the job ?

[uponit7771]

2. +1, the device is DESIGNED to kill a lot of humans EFFICIENTLY and should not be in the hands of

... every day us citizens

[snot]

5. K&R'd.

[onehandle]

9. Anyone who wants a gun must be subject to close scrutiny.

As little as a speeding ticket should disqualify them.

[JonLeibowitz]

11. Absurd dismissal of a constitutional right.

Do you realize that a speeding ticket is not even a criminal offense?

[linuxman]

12. Why?

In what way is a speeding ticket indicative of being a danger with a gun?

It's stuff like this which guarantees the second ammendment and gun ownership will never go away. Gun grabbers are physically incapable of supressing their totalitarian views on control. We hear "reasonable, reasonable, reasonable " all day long, but a shooting hits the news and the grabbers show their inner orwell. God bless their self defeating fervour.

Nobody's trusts you guys anymore.

[msongs]

14. there are 50 recently dead people who might agree with "gun grabbers" instead of someone like you nt

[linuxman]

17. As long as you're invoking the potential opinions of the still warm dead,

How many of them do you think wished they had the means to fight back effectively, rather than be slaughtered?

I felt sick even writing that. How you do it is beyond me.

[busterbrown]

16. maybe he doesn’t want them..

to go away.. IM humble Opinion? He doesn’t..