WHEN ‘ASSAULT WEAPONS’ SAVED KOREATOWN

Human Events ^ | 12/23/2012 | Ryan James Girdusky

[lentulusgracchus]

The video footage of a Korean shop owner defending his business with a Beretta 92 which I’m sure held a 15 round mag will forever live in my mind.

It was accidental (except in a courtroom where a prosecutor might have been pushing the old theory, "intent follows the bullet"), but one of those shopkeepers did drop a Chicana grocery shopper about 1-1/2 to 2 miles away. She was returning home from a walk to the grocery store, when a flyer struck her in the forehead, killing her instantly. Of course it wasn't intentional -- it would have been a million-to-one shot -- but it was fatal nevertheless. ("Don't go shopping in a war zone?")

[MasterGunner01]

Anecdote from the LA Riots. I was in Las Vegas at the SOF Convention after the Riots. I talked to an LAFD guy selling T-shirts emblazoned with the appropriate stick figures saying: “1992 LA Olympic Triathalon. Shoot, Loot, and Scoot.”

We talked about the response by the Koreatown shopkeepers. He told me that some of the rioters were throwing fire bombs (Molotov cocktails) into looted stores. One of the Koreans didn't want to shoot a rioter with a firebomb, so he shot it in his hand just after he lit the wick. The perp went from rioter to crispy critter.

[crosshairs]

You’re confusing “assault weapon” with “assault rifle”. Different beasts.

In the hands of criminals (and rogue governments), they're assault weapons. In the hands of law abiding citizens, they're defense weapons.

[gaijin]

YouTube: Koreans with rifles deter attacks in LA Riots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCiC6qTtjs

(start at 1:12 point)

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link. Happy New Year!

[El Gato]

ou’re confusing “assault weapon” with “assault rifle”.

He gave a definition for assault rifle. Assault Weapon seems to mean whichever guns the libs are trying to ban, this year. They aren't all rifles/carbines, some are shotguns.

He did make one error. Guns such as the Bushmaster in quesion are not "made to look like battle rifles", a battle rifle fires a full power catridge, 7.62x51 for example. FN-FAL, or it's various clones, G-3, M-14, and even the Swiss SiG Stgw-57, which fired a 7.5mm Swiss round.

[neverdem]

One of the Koreans didn't want to shoot a rioter with a firebomb, so he shot it in his hand just after he lit the wick. The perp went from rioter to crispy critter.

LOL! Good aim, but timing is everything!

[Cronos]

don’t know much about guns, but the gunman who killed the kids would have got an assault rifle illegally if he wanted to, right? what difference would banning legal purchases do?