Posted on 11/11/2009 11:47:41 AM PST by neverdem
The Folly of Unilateral Disarmament
Even less relevant is the allegation that Hasan used illegal armor-piercing ammunition. The Brady Campaign bizarrely chose to highlight that claim even though there was no indication that any of Hasans victims were wearing bullet-proof vests, let alone that his bullets penetrated them. Perhaps the group hoped that such puzzling illogic would distract people from the plain fact that having a gun is better than not having one when you are confronted by a homicidal maniac.
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Hasan was an army officer on an army base. Getting his hands on a weapon was not a problem.
If they really wanted to scare people, shouldn't they have called it a Minority Baby Killer Gun?
Brady bunch blames gun for terrorist murders. Forgetting to mention that the armor piercing (cop killer) ammo is not available to the public. These scumbags exploiting the Islamic terrorist murders of American soldiers makes me sick. I want to see the Brady Bunch blame the murderer for a change.
That's not entirely accurate, at all. He had no more access to a weapon, than a civilian school teacher working on the base. I think civilians believe that Army & Marine Corps bases are places where weapons are just laying about. They aren't. Weapons are highly secured, at all times. If you don't have a reason to remove your weapon from the armory, you're not going to be removing a weapon from the armory.
And, there's more than a probable chance that Hasan wasn't even assigned a sidearm, unlike all other line or infantry officers that are assigned a personal sidearm. It's probably for these reasons that Hasan used his personally acquired and owned weapons.
They fail to mention that they were probably the ones who began referring to anything as "cop killer."
If you want to kill a cop, buy a .45. If you want to wound him, buy a 5x7FN. Shoosh - these people are crazy - also, have you ever seen them upset when a cop actually gets killed? No, they’re too busy hanging out with their ivy league terrorist Bill Ayers.
She really IS a stupid old hag isn’t she ...
You beat me to the point. This is precisely the case.
The 5.7 does not seem to be much of any kind of killer. The killed to wounded ration is, thank God, very low.
We should ban planes first, though, since they killed 3,000 on 9/11.
The 5.7 FN is not much of a killer. The dead to wounded ratio is, thank God, very low.
“the plain fact that having a gun is better than not having one when you are confronted by a homicidal maniac.”
Bingo!
It was an UNARMED SITTING DUCK killer gun.
The presence of this traitor as a Major on a U.S. Army post was made possible by the malaise of prolitical correctness all the way up the chain of command.
Great story! (Sarcasm)
For those of us who know a thing about guns, what was the caliber? I didn’t know they made handguns that would fire rifle calibers.
The penetration for handguns is in the ammo not the machine itself.
Once the Islamist nutjob shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and opened fire, they did not have anything on hand to shoot back with. Instead, it took a cop civilian cops, who arrived THREE minutes after the killing started, to take the perp down. And this on a major military base!
THAT's the REAL story here...
http://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearmstech/fabriquen.htm
batfe doesn’t seem too worried about the FiveSeven or it’s ammo.
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