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To: TLBSHOW
Any bets it was not a "machine gun"?
3 posted on 05/09/2003 3:02:01 PM PDT by wardaddy (My dog turned to me and he said " Let's head back to Tennessee Jed!")
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To: wardaddy
Any bets it was not a "machine gun"?

My first thoughts upon reading the headline.

4 posted on 05/09/2003 3:03:50 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: wardaddy
Any bets it was not a "machine gun"?

But you'll ruin a great headline thinking like that! It's time to renew the Assault Weapon Ban, dontcha know.

5 posted on 05/09/2003 3:04:14 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: wardaddy
It makes my head hurt to think of how many urban idiots don't know the difference between semi and fully automatic fire.

Stories like this make you wonder what percentage of journalists have no experience with firearms. It is probably huge.
10 posted on 05/09/2003 3:07:21 PM PDT by activationproducts (I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.)
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To: wardaddy
It will quickly evolve from a "machine gun" into an "AK-47" and then after the news cycle is spent, way back on page 29 it will be described by an officer as an SKS carbine. That's my 2-cent bet.
20 posted on 05/09/2003 3:15:48 PM PDT by Sender
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To: wardaddy
Any bets it was not a "machine gun"?

LeKisha said it was a machine gun.
Don't you believe her?
She works in the first floor cafeteria afterall.
I'm sure she must be intimately familiar with all types of firearms.

39 posted on 05/09/2003 3:40:40 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: wardaddy
I'll also bet a week's pay that there is no "machine gun" involved here; but the press will lead the gulable American public by the nose--AGAIN, and they will get away with another convenient distortion of the reality.

Too convenient. Less we all forget--although I know that will not be the case--that the "Assault" Weapons Ban is due to sunset. Now, why is it that I cannot refrain from thinking that this was a setup? Call me a cynic, but this "event" smells worse than three-day-old fish left on the counter. This is a made to order situation for the gun grabbers, and its timing cannot be accidental.

Sometimes I wonder if the liberals have made some diabolical deal with the devil himself... How else is the timing of this explained?
61 posted on 05/09/2003 5:19:14 PM PDT by jt8d (War is better than terrorism)
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To: wardaddy
Any bets it was not a "machine gun"?

No way, you nailed it. The title had me visualizing John Wayne with an air cooled .50 caliber machine gun blazing away. (Also, one shot at a time?)

The gun control nuts will have a field day with this one.

Remember, guns kill people and people have nothing to do with it.</sarcasm off>

63 posted on 05/09/2003 5:22:31 PM PDT by zip (I love being right.)
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To: wardaddy
He had a machine gun, book bag, camouflage shirt, military green hat, white pants and a bookbag," she said. "I didn't see his face

Two book bags......gotta be series......Stay Safe !

87 posted on 05/09/2003 7:27:49 PM PDT by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: wardaddy
Too bad decent hunting rifles are too expensive for people to go on rampages. I'd like to see the Dems propose a ban of all .270s and .30-06
90 posted on 05/09/2003 7:52:22 PM PDT by Bogey78O (check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
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To: wardaddy
1 Dies After Univ. Shooting in Cleveland

 

By M.R. KROPKO

Associated Press Writer

 

CLEVELAND (AP)--A man wearing camouflage and carrying a

high-powered rifle opened fire inside a university business school Friday.

 

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V8804.AP-University-Shoo.html

 

Must be one of them new-fangled "Machine Gun/Assault Weapon/High Powered Rifles!"

DG

95 posted on 05/09/2003 8:28:31 PM PDT by DoorGunner (Mandatory firearms identification classes for everyone!)
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To: wardaddy
Love your tagline.
131 posted on 05/12/2003 7:50:25 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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