Posted on 10/04/2017 3:37:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democrat Tim Kaine, who -- and people forget this -- is a member of the United States Senate who ran on Hillary Clinton's ticket last in fall's election (look it up!), weighed in on the gun control debate that is raging the aftermath of Sunday night's horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas. In a very special attempt to link his opposition to a Republican proposal to ease federal restrictions on gun suppressors to the massacre, Kaine explained how he believes local authorities were able to put an end to the shooter's reign of terror. Just so we're clear, this person is a sitting Senator who wields one of just 100 upper chamber votes on gun policy legislation:
He was only stopped finally because he did not have a silencer on his weapon. And the sound drew people to the place where he was ultimately stopped. Can you imagine what this would have been if he had silencers on these weapons?”
Hillary, who rushed to debase herself by immediately politicizing the Vegas attack, got fact-checked by the Washington Post for spouting similarly ignorant nonsense about "silencers:"
The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots.
Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 2, 2017
Actually, even with "a silencer," it's pretty loud. An AR-15 rifle would have a noise equivalent to a jack hammer. https://t.co/rL1YFuAB5b https://t.co/YE9smBZqGG— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 2, 2017
That correction stems from an analysis in which WaPo awarded another Senate Democrat 'Three Pinocchios' for garbage assertions about "silencers." Now seems like the perfect opportunity to highlight one small but insightful snippet from a data journalist's much-discussed column explaining how her arguments for gun control "crumbled" as she examined the facts: "I can’t endorse policies whose only selling point is that gun owners hate them. Policies that often seem as if they were drafted by people who have encountered guns only as a figure in a briefing book or an image on the news," she wrote. Those people apparently include multiple US Senators and a failed presidential candidate.
Surely he has to know this is a lie.
He’s got that Jack Nicholson “Here’s Johnny” crazy look in that picture!
First I heard about a smoke alarm being involved.
Have heard:
Hotel guest on floor above heard the noise & called the front desk.
Casino/hotel security guard went to investigate & Paddock shot thru the door & hit his leg. He stayed close enough to call for help & that brought the cops& eventually, the SWAT team.
Good catch.
Why is he repeating her nonsense as if she wasn’t refuted immediately and repeatedly? It’s like he crawled out from under a rock, shook the groggy out of his head, saw her tweet, said cool!, ignored the responses and threw his own nonsense out there too. I’m continually amazed at the lack of brain power in Congress.
“He stayed close enough to call for help & that brought the cops& eventually, the SWAT team.”
Why did it take an hour for the police to arrive at the room?
Was the shooter out of ammunition? If not why did he stop shooting, if he intended to die anyway?
“Why did it take an hour for the police to arrive at the room?”
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They were off eating donuts,of course./s
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Tim Kaine needs a silencer badly....m,ake it two, one for his pie hole and anopther for his cake hole. That should make life a lot more comfortable.
Imagine this idiot as VP ? Yech!
Kaine knows nothing about the use of suppression attachments, that the ammo needs to be special made low range subsonic, that rapid fire would melt the barrel of the weapon.
At least some one should press his reset button, so as to silence the trash talk.
he is quite the ass-clown isn’t he? Another reason to be thankful that Hillary did not win...
For the life of me I couldn’t even remember his name prior to coming to this post. LOL
He really is a complete douche, isn’t he...
Amazing how much he looks like the Dummy from the Twilight Zone....
You can take a raw potato and use it for a limited time to silence a small-bore gun. It also slows the bullet down, so it might cancel the sonic boom that a regular, legal silencer does not. But seriously, folks. He’s gonna sit there in that room with a pile of raw potatoes, holding them in place with duct tape? Switching them off when they get excessively perforated? It’s a pity he didn’t try that. It might have saved a few.
Of course not. The extra chromosome does that to them./s
You mean, James Bond doesn’t use them when he’s in the field on a mission?! Ian Fleming lied!
An understandable mistake. Which half of the horse?
Unless he was shooting sub-sonic rounds, the ‘crack’ of the super-sonic bullet would be heard and easily tracked back.
that is so funny, but he probably could scare little kids as much as IT.
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