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The comments have been coming from all over the country, so many of the commenters (but not all ... I'm sure some DO know) are aware that Connecticut is one of a very few states that still has an AWB in place. It's very close to the old Federal AWB, in fact. So the simple fact that the mother purchased the (evil) Bushmaster legally (confirmed by the CT State Police) by definition tells us that this was NOT an "assault weapon."
But we need to be careful. If we make that clear, it just gives the antis more grounds to claim that "civilians" shouldn't even be allowed to own sporting arms, that ALL guns are bad and only the police and the military should have guns.
Unfortunately, we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. If we say nothing, we get run over. If we say anything, we are hard-hearted [bleeps] who don't care about the children. This, despite the fact that most of us HAVE children, and are vitally interested in finding the best way to protect them. In fact, that may be our best counter-argument. The NYPD detective who rattled a Fox News commentator by advocating that gun-free school zones be abolished and that teachers hsould be armed made a point of repeating multiple times that he has three children in elementary school and that he was making his suggestion because he thinks that's the best way to keep his kids safe.
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