Excerpts:
- Daily News columnist Mike Lupica says "any fool knows that Lanza couldn't possibly have killed as many children as quickly as he did on the morning of Dec. 14 without an assault weapon in his hands." Lupica is right. That is what a fool knows, or thinks he knows. But is it true?----[emphasis added, comment: answer to question is " No."]
- as Kopel pointed out, the criteria that legislators use to identify so-called assault weapons "do not ban guns based on how fast they fire, or how powerful they are." Rather, "the definitions are based on the name of a gun, or on whether a firearm has certain superficial accessories (such as a bayonet lug, or a grip in the 'wrong' place)." [ emphasis added]
- In reality, handguns are the weapons favored by mass killers, including the one responsible for the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history, at Virginia Tech in 2007.
- "Ms. Feinstein said that she still could not get out of her mind looking for the pulse...and in the process 'putting my fingers in a bullet hole.'"...Dan White's crime is clearly irrelevant to the constitutional issue, and it does not even make sense as symbolism. Because White killed Milk and Moscone with a revolver, Feinstein was essentially saying, we cannot tolerate barrel shrouds on rifles
Comment:
Limitations upon how many bullets in an ammo clip wouldn't have mattered either. Adam Lanza didn't even use all of the bullets in the clips, as he replaced the clips as he went from room to room whether he needed to or not. It wouldn't have made a difference.
Therefore, it is all political theater masquerading a good governance. In order to defeat the theater, you have to defeat the theatrics.
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