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In reply to the discussion: How the hell did one guy keep shooting continuously for 20 minutes? [View all]milestogo
(17,062 posts)42. I think it would be hard to estimate the amount of time
that someone was shooting in a situation like this. For those who were hiding in the club it must have seemed like an eternity before the shooting was over.
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Apparently that is true ... or at least that's what "they" want us to beleive
etherealtruth
Jun 2016
#4
Like at the Paris Bataclan, the attack would be foiled if some patrons carried weapons
Albertoo
Jun 2016
#50
Replacing a magazine doesn't take much time. Didn't anyone there have a gun to stop him?
braddy
Jun 2016
#2
LOTS more people.... no safe background for that "good guy" to take any kind of shot....
Bigmack
Jun 2016
#30
It's too bad a club that large didn't have staff who carried if that is allowed, to just terrorists
braddy
Jun 2016
#40
The Colorodo theater killer used a 100 shot drum. It jammed as they often do.
PoliticAverse
Jun 2016
#15
My guess is that in the heat of the moment the victim didn't have an entirely accurate
mythology
Jun 2016
#7
I am definitely putting some blame on law enforcement for waiting hours to go in
Amishman
Jun 2016
#81
It's difficult to tell from audio what the firearm is, though it's definitely a semi-auto.
Adrahil
Jun 2016
#25
Just did a Google search, and that 22 caliber ammo used to kill this morning...
scscholar
Jun 2016
#23
.223 is one of the lowest power centerfire rifle rounds on the market.
Just reading posts
Jun 2016
#59
Wasn't there a report that said he was familiar or trained on some of these weapons?
Brickbat
Jun 2016
#24
By switching magazines. With a CA-compliant AR-15 he wouldn't have been able to
Recursion
Jun 2016
#35
That figure is for actual assault rifles, not the sporting rifles that look like them.
braddy
Jun 2016
#41
So after that happens and an untold number of people kill each other 'in the heat of battle'
Rex
Jun 2016
#54
It only takes a few seconds to reload, and he reportedly had a handgun as a backup weapon.
Just reading posts
Jun 2016
#61