Originally Posted by bronco67

A bushmaster .223 is basically an AR-15.

On the news when I first heard about this, the reporter was saying it was a .22 caliber-- then I thought maybe that many people didn't get killed. While a 22 will fuck your day up, you have a good chance of surviving that.

Technically, a .223 is a 22 caliber, but with about 10 times the powder load, and the bullet tumbles and bounces around inside the target, rather than going through like a 7.62mm Ak47 round would.

So the high death toll made more sense to me once I saw that it was an AR15.

I can't imagine how scary that was for the kids. I had my own Ar15 years ago, and you can't appreciate how loud that round is if you only hear guns in the movies.