Originally Posted by Robbie

Tragedy can happen anytime it's true. And you never know when a crazy person or a criminal could shoot you.

But it's far more likely someone close to you is going to die in an automobile accident, and if they live long enough it's almost certain they will die of cancer or heart disease (from the foods they ate during their lives).

All this talk about automatic weapons is insane.

This tragedy had nothing to do with automatic weapons, it's about a COP killing the girl....the criminal didn't even do it.

And criminals don't use big machine guns. It's almost always small handguns. Why anti-2nd amendment folks always start screaming about "assault rifles" and "full auto" freakin' machine guns is beyond me.

Criminals use the weapon that works best for the crime.
Now crazy killers like the school shooting? All bets are off on homicidal maniacs. As the Boston incident showed...they can and will use ANYTHING to kill people (bombs).

Interestingly enough....I was watching "Pawn Stars" today and they were looking at some Civil War weapons.
And if you've ever watched that show, you know that they give historical facts about things that they are looking at.
They explained that during the Civil War the Confederacy didn't have the big munitions factories that the Union had. So a lot of their weapons were hand made (that's for those people who think that criminals can't make their own guns).
And before you scoff at "handmade" guns...the guns they were looking at today were a very common weapon used during the Civil War...a 54 Caliber rifle!!! Holy fuck! That would basically cut you in half!