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krispos42

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9. What is truly scary about Newtown...

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 08:38 AM

Dec 2012

...or any other mass shooting, is that it makes us all realize just how hideously vulnerable we are.

Newtown would not have been appreciable better if the shooter had been limited to lever-action rifles, or pump-action shotguns, or 6-shot revolvers.

In any case like this, the shooter has several minutes to shoot, unopposed, before armed help arrives, and even more time before the police can find and kill him.

Newtown can happen ANYPLACE, and without the latest and greatest in tactical rifles or whatever.

Hell, check out your local Chuck E. Cheese on a Saturday. Imagine a nut going in there with a revolver and a box of ammunition.

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