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hatrack

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3. Full-auto weapons, or something close to them . .

Reply to barbtries (Original post)

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:06 AM

Oct 2017

Throw in a big, dense crowd of people enjoying a music festival and a firing position some stories above that, and yeah, that's how one person does it.

The real American Exceptionalism - our global performance in mass-casualty shootings really is exceptional.

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number of injured just doubled to more than 400 [View all] barbtries Oct 2017 OP

It sounded like a true automatic weapon hack89 Oct 2017 #1

A lot of injuries were caused during Zoonart Oct 2017 #5

With the kind of weapon he used atreides1 Oct 2017 #2

Full-auto weapons, or something close to them . . hatrack Oct 2017 #3

This in a nut shell. Afromania Oct 2017 #6

+1, bump fire kits are still legal to sell in America ... which is disgusting uponit7771 Oct 2017 #9

I am so shook up by this. barbtries Oct 2017 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author Afromania Oct 2017 #4

" ... more than 10 rifles ... " says one of the sheriffs talking on MSNBC uponit7771 Oct 2017 #7

I can't imagine how the hospitals can handle all of this. mucifer Oct 2017 #8

they can't. barbtries Oct 2017 #10

I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with guns or how easy it is for people smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #12

There must be some dysfunction deep within the white community that caused the gunman . . . hatrack Oct 2017 #13