@jeffw to politics • 6 months agoBiden says it’s ‘time to outlaw’ AR-15 after Trump assassination attemptwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square461arrow-up1702arrow-down142
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minus-square@jordanlundMlink22•6 months agoThe type of rifle isn’t the problem here. If the shooter had used something better it’s likely Trump wouldn’t have survived. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting “Charles Whitman killed seventeen individuals and wounded at least thirty-one others over the course of thirteen hours before he was killed on the observation deck of the UT Tower on August 1, 1966.[72]” And of course, infamously: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
minus-square@ourslinkEnglish15•6 months agoWith the Texas tower shooter it was the shooter himself the difference. He was a Marine sharpshooter. Oswald was also a former Marine. These guys were extensively trained.
The type of rifle isn’t the problem here. If the shooter had used something better it’s likely Trump wouldn’t have survived.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting
“Charles Whitman killed seventeen individuals and wounded at least thirty-one others over the course of thirteen hours before he was killed on the observation deck of the UT Tower on August 1, 1966.[72]”
And of course, infamously:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
With the Texas tower shooter it was the shooter himself the difference. He was a Marine sharpshooter. Oswald was also a former Marine.
These guys were extensively trained.