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Rachel Maddow - Half the deadliest shootings in U.S. history happened in past six years
Rachel Maddow - Half the deadliest shootings in U.S. history happened in past six years
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Rachel Maddow - Half the deadliest shootings in U.S. history happened in past six years (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2013
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applegrove
(124,306 posts)1. So when did the assault weapons ban end? And when did automatic weapons
become common?
Loudly
(2,436 posts)2. Let me be the first to shake your hand Rip Van Winkle.
Those bastards have been crowing about this for the past decade.
And the recent Colorado gun control recalls have just fed that nasty carnivorous dinosaur.
SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)4. I know this is just a technicality but,
Most of those were committed with weapons not covered by the AWB, so ban or no ban the guns could have been obtained legally.
Automatic weapons are not common. Semi-automatic weapons are common.
gopiscrap
(24,283 posts)3. Wow, I heard a think tank predict thagt they next one will be in 5 months,
be a white 38 swm he will kill 7 and it will be in Spokane...I would love to know how they came to that conclusion.