Was there a point?
Considering that I put this thread in media, pointed out the fact that no one found an AR-15, and then showed CNN blathering away about AR-15s after they admitted there wasn't one, and then made an offhand comment about bias, I thought the point was self explanatory. I obviously forgot to factor in the knee jerk reactions of the anti gun nuts.
Huh?
Perhaps the point of asking the point sailed over more than one head. What I'm asking is, why does it matter whether it was an AR-15 or a QM-27? Aren't the victims just as dead? Is it not still a shooting? Is it not mass murder? What am I missing in this ever so crucial distinction?
Didn't initial reports on Lanza give his brother's name? Are not details on breaking news stories, particularly urgent ones, commonly subject to correction?
IOW why are you hung up on this detail? What's the point?
Its very very simple. The AR-15 is the "boogeyman" gun, its scary looking, and its the low hanging fruit that grabbers want to get banned from non governmental ownership. They figure if they get that one, then next they can get semi-auto pistols (call them assault pistols maybe) and so on and so on until only the goverment can have firearms.
Thus the grabbers actually hoped it was an AR-15 or another semi-automatic rifle, so they can further thier agenda.
That it is not, that it was a common pump action shotgun is unusable to them, because even though they want to ban those as well, they will look unreasonable to most americans in banning something as common as a pump shotgun. AR-15's on the other hand are scary enough to fool some people into wanting them banned.