Please Help Me Craft A Response To A Tea Bagger

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9. Evidence

RW types don't respond to evidence in a rational way but that doesn't mean it's not important.
• The man who shot up the movie theater in Colorado had 3,000 legal rounds of .223 ammunition, including a 100-round drum that he had purchased online. The police chief of Aurora estimated he could fire between 50 and 60 rounds per minute, one trigger pull at a time.

• In the weeks after that shooting, some lawmakers proposed limits on high-capacity magazines. That proposal went nowhere, of course. “Who determines what ‘high-capacity’ is?” Luke O’Dell, of the National Association for Gun Rights, asked at the time. “It’s a slippery slope we start walking when we start picking and choosing what rights of the Constitution and Bill of Rights we’re going to follow.”

• The Bushmaster .223 is one of a few versions of the demilitarized M16 – rifles known as AR-15s. It can only be called a “little twenty-two” – a little rabbit plinker – if you’re trying to fool someone you think is dumb. While the ammunition for the assault rifle and the plinker may be the same diameter, the .223 has a longer projectile and much more power – a lot more gunpowder behind it.

• It is an excellent sniper rifle. It was the weapon used by the Beltway Snipers in 2002.

• Ads for the rifles make this moronic appeal: “Consider your Man Card reissued.”

http://m.spokesman.com/stories/2012/dec/28/mass-murderers-other-commonality-ar-15/