Glock 19 is an Assualt weapon

[widefat]

Was having my morning coffee while watching CNN. Talking head is interviewing Rand Paul, when she made an astoundingly intelligent statement. I had to wait for the transcript to see if I heard her correctly:

CAMEROTA: And, sure. I mean, there is no answer obviously or we would have done something. I mean, that that part is clear.

But there has to be a place to start. Let me tell you a few facts we know about this. We believe that this gunman bought the gun legally in Virginia. He used a Glock 19. Many people, as you know, call that an assault weapon, similar to the one used in the Virginia Tech massacre.

In Australia, after a terrible mass murder there in 1996, Australians passed a law to ban semiautomatic weapons. They did not have another mass murder since then.

Is there something to be done about getting these particular types of weapons out of people who shouldn't have them?

Who are these "many people" she's talking about? I swear, the older I get the more annoyed I get at just plain stupid people.

[DaRoller]

Letters + Numbers -> Glock 19 = Letters + Numbers -> AR-15.
I'm sure that's what she meant. Apparently 80% of police officers carry assault weapons in various calibers.
Who knew?

[AnkleBiter]

Lets have a look at Australia and see how that is working out. For the fun of it I will show you England as well.

http://www.ammoland.com/2013/08/gun-cri ... z3k969Rukl
http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2013/0 ... gun_b.html
England
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ecade.html
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavli ... d-n1464528

Having looked at these myself you would be hard pressed to get a hold of my firearms. This conversation will always be filled with emotions and anger as they generally pick up right after a shooting incident, clearly this guy had a long history of issues in the workplace as well as more recently on his Twitter account and other social media. He should have been evaluated LONG before this based upon history.

[MarcSpaz]

"many people" would be the many people in her break room.

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[DaRoller]

This conversation will always be filled with emotions and anger as they generally pick up right after a shooting incident, clearly this guy had a long history of issues in the workplace as well as more recently on his Twitter account and other social media. He should have been evaluated LONG before this based upon history.

That would have just caused another lawsuit, or two. No way to win this one, but that's something that gun control proponents will never understand.

[ouyin2000]

Letters + Numbers -> Glock 19 = Letters + Numbers -> AR-15.
I'm sure that's what she meant. Apparently 80% of police officers carry assault weapons in various calibers.
Who knew?

Police officers only carry "patrol carbines"

[graybeard321]

In the minds of the Gun control group any black gun is an assault weapons.

[scott9050]

They left out that he was an Obama supporter and had pictures taken with the rainbow flag which they found at his house. Of course we know that this means that flag must be immediately banned.

If they want to tackle the real issue, deal with the Democrats who cause 90% of the violent crime in this country.

You have to ignore CNN, they are too radical and idiotic for even MSNBC. Don Lemon could easily be voted idiot of the year.