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Originally Posted by ckinchen
I am certainly a pro gun guy and a hunter. My wife and I both have a concealed carry license and we vote republican.
However where I differ from most is on assault rifles. I just don't see where there is a need for semi auto weapons like an ar-15 that holds 30 rounds. Full disclosure I own one. I realize I am probably in the minority on this but you don't see mass shootings with a browning a5 or Remington 700 bolt action they just aren't the weapon of choice or made to fire off significant rounds in a mass shooting situation.
Just offering a different opinion on this. As it relates to gun control I firmly support the right to carry. I just don't see a real need for an assault weapon. I feel I could defend my home very well wiht an 870 express pump shotgun.
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I agree with you regarding the AR-15 but a knife and a Remington 700 were his weapons of choice. "
Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 ? August 1, 1966) was an American
mass murderer who became infamous as the "
Texas Tower Sniper." On August 1, 1966, he used knives in the slaying of his mother and wife in their respective homes. He then went to the
University of Texas in Austin, where the rampage began. He shot and killed three people inside the
university tower. He then went to the tower's 28th-floor observation deck, where he fired at random for some 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding thirty-one others before he was shot and killed by two Austin police officers. A total of sixteen people were killed; a 17th victim died 35 years later from injuries sustained in the attack"