The "assault rifle" never left the car.

unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
edited January 2013 in A Moving Train
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  • SmellymanSmellyman Asia Posts: 4,524
    wow. good info.

    guess we should ban them all
  • The most 'telling part of the story' was that he got into an argument with school staff members on the 13th.

    He then tried to go buy a rifle and was denied for reasons unstated (newscaster said there is a waiting period which might have been one).

    What's my point (if you don't know already)?

    He got into an argument. He was mad. He went to buy a gun and put the argument to rest. Was denied. No big deal. He knew where there were ample guns. He went and got those guns and... the rest is history.

    Go buy some more guns unsung. I'm likely not alone when I say to you I have no more time or energy to dedicate trying to illustrate the glaring and ridiculously obvious need for gun reform in your country. I mean... what more can possibly be said?

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  • markin ballmarkin ball Posts: 1,075
    The video in the OP is from Dec. 15th. Much has been learned since then.

    http://www.redstate.com/2012/12/27/sett ... ter-ar-15/

    Setting the Record Straight: Adam Lanza Did use the Bushmaster AR-15
    By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 27th, 2012 at 08:12 PM | 25

    RESIZE: AAA
    The media did a horrible job getting its facts and figures straight during and after the tragedy in Connecticut. Gun control advocates have seized on a lot of information and ignored a lot of information in an effort to push their agenda.

    But I’m seeing gun rights supporters do the same. Most troubling, over the past week on radio filling in for Neal Boortz I’ve heard from dozens of callers, tweeters, Facebook friends, and email correspondents assuring me that Adam Lanza never used the AR-15 in his possession. Most people linked to a video purportedly showing the police retrieving the AR-15 from Adam Lanza’s car after the incident.

    I don’t blame these people for getting the facts wrong. The media caused a lot of the misinformation in their rush to cover the story. But as the nation begins to set policy (or not) based on this random act of violence, we should all have our facts straight.

    The fact is, Adam Lanza used a handgun to take his own life, but he relied on the Bushmaster AR-15 to kill most of the victims. He did use that gun. You don’t have to believe me. Believe Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance:

    The primary weapon used in the attack was a “Bushmaster AR-15 assault-type weapon,” said Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance.

    Let’s keep to the facts, not the grainy videos on YouTube purporting to show what is not true.

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  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    You mean much has been changed.

    The gun was found in the car.

    Rahm Emmanuel said, "never let a good crisis go to waste."

    It's wool pulled over the eyes of America.
  • markin ballmarkin ball Posts: 1,075
    http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/12/15/s ... ion-deaths

    The above is a link to a press conference the medical examiner gave in which he said all wounds he is aware of were caused by the long weapon (he had performed 7 of the autopsies). Then someone asks if the rifle was the primary weapon and he says "yes".

    It's just a simple internet search.
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,963
    Yeah, it was first reported that the long gun was in the car (I mentioned thatyselfnin some other thread right after it happened). But it's really old news now that that was NOT in fact the case, and that he did use the long gun in the killing. It was, in fact, the main weapon used. If you don't known this by now unsung, you are wearing some SERIOUS blinders. If you are going to use a recent tragedy to support your views, then you should probably pay closer attention to the details of the tragedy.
    The media did a poor job of reporting at first with this.
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    He then tried to go buy a rifle and was denied for reasons unstated (newscaster said there is a waiting period which might have been one).
    The gunman was 20. Connecticut law is 21 to buy a gun. There is also a waiting period.
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  • Newch91 wrote:
    He then tried to go buy a rifle and was denied for reasons unstated (newscaster said there is a waiting period which might have been one).
    The gunman was 20. Connecticut law is 21 to buy a gun. There is also a waiting period.

    Thanks!
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Newch91 wrote:
    He then tried to go buy a rifle and was denied for reasons unstated (newscaster said there is a waiting period which might have been one).
    The gunman was 20. Connecticut law is 21 to buy a gun. There is also a waiting period.

    Thanks!
    Glad to help. Here's more info:

    http://www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/law/firearms.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Connecticut
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  • JimmyVJimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,183
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Yeah, it was first reported that the long gun was in the car (I mentioned thatyselfnin some other thread right after it happened). But it's really old news now that that was NOT in fact the case, and that he did use the long gun in the killing. It was, in fact, the main weapon used. If you don't known this by now unsung, you are wearing some SERIOUS blinders. If you are going to use a recent tragedy to support your views, then you should probably pay closer attention to the details of the tragedy.
    The media did a poor job of reporting at first with this.

    Yep. Never let the facts get in the way of some good old political spin. Kinda funny given the Rahm Emmanuel quote earlier on.
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  • unsung wrote:
    You mean much has been changed.

    The gun was found in the car.

    Rahm Emmanuel said, "never let a good crisis go to waste."

    It's wool pulled over the eyes of America.

    Yes, much of the story as it initially came out were wrong. Once again, our media was dead set on being first than being right.

    They initially reported that his mother was a teacher there, and she was killed in her classroom with the kids. It was also reported that Ryan Lanza (his older brother) was the shooter, and Ryan's facebook profile was even shown.

    So yes, details have changed, not "have been changed", but keep trying to spin things...
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,717
    yep, from the time he put it in the car to the time he took it out to shoot up the school, it never left the car.
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  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    What about the two men running from the scene the cops chased down in the woods? Anyone heard who these guys were?
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,963
    aerial wrote:
    What about the two men running from the scene the cops chased down in the woods? Anyone heard who these guys were?
    This is the first time I've even heard that.... I'm going to assume they were no one.
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  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLmCf-SsJPA

    starting about 2:14 ........... independent investigators will be prosecuted?
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  • so,if stays at the car,whit what he killed those poor kids?

    with his "assault eyelook",or with is "assault farts"?
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  • BinFrog wrote:

    if you look at A Moving Train, there are 3-4 posters ruining it for everyone. They think they are riling things up and exposing the truth. Really they are just sad internet trolls with a worn out shtick.
    we all know them....

    and i dont understand why some of the rest of us taking their bait every day..

    ignore is the best way
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,963
    JimmyV wrote:
    As much as I dont agree with the 3-4 folks I assume you're talking about, this place would be boring if there were no head on collisions.

    I have no problem with differing opinions and I enjoy a good debate. But I do think some of our more vocal friends on the right far too often resort to blatant trolling.
    It's true... although I do wonder if we all just THINK they're trolling but those are actually their true thoughts and feelings. :? In any case, I don't mind them. I think it's really entertaining, especially when people really get worked up. :D
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  • so,if stays at the car,whit what he killed those poor kids?

    with his "assault eyelook",or with is "assault farts"?

    I have been a victim of a fart assault. Many times. My cousin used to hold me down and fart in my face. I was much smaller and younger at the time. There wasn't much I could do except hold my breath and pray to God I wouldn't get pink eye.
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  • AllNiteThingAllNiteThing Posts: 1,114
    Not to bring this thread back on topic or anything (god forbid), but can someone give some kind of definitive proof that he did use the assault rifle? There are both reports that he did (the medical examiner, most news outlets), and reports that he didn't (the 'car trunk' video and various websites). I'm fairly certain it was used, but there is a gun nut at my office who says the car trunk video is a gotcha moment showing the bias of the media, and that the examiner is obviously either incompetent or part of this 'conspiracy'. I'm not one to fall for that bs, but honestly I don't see anything good to refute his argument, other than to say that it's a stretch to think the examiner was wrong. What exactly was that rifle in the trunk and is there any other concrete proof that that or another assault rifle was used in the school?
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  • so,if stays at the car,whit what he killed those poor kids?

    with his "assault eyelook",or with is "assault farts"?

    I have been a victim of a fart assault. Many times. My cousin used to hold me down and fart in my face. I was much smaller and younger at the time. There wasn't much I could do except hold my breath and pray to God I wouldn't get pink eye.
    you still Alive!!!
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,963
    Not to bring this thread back on topic or anything (god forbid), but can someone give some kind of definitive proof that he did use the assault rifle? There are both reports that he did (the medical examiner, most news outlets), and reports that he didn't (the 'car trunk' video and various websites). I'm fairly certain it was used, but there is a gun nut at my office who says the car trunk video is a gotcha moment showing the bias of the media, and that the examiner is obviously either incompetent or part of this 'conspiracy'. I'm not one to fall for that bs, but honestly I don't see anything good to refute his argument, other than to say that it's a stretch to think the examiner was wrong. What exactly was that rifle in the trunk and is there any other concrete proof that that or another assault rifle was used in the school?
    The medical examiner said that all of the bodies he examined were killed by "the long gun." Since there was only one long gun found at the scene (the assault rifle), that would be the proof I think.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    unsung wrote:
    ...
    You DO realize that the report you posted was from 15December2012... correct? That was the morning after the murders.
    Since that time, facts have surfaced to paint a clearer picture of what happened that day.
    ...
    Come on... you are smarter than that. These type of looney conspiracy theories does nothing but erode away your credibility. The 'Government' had no hand in either the killings nor the reporting... and what you are alleging falls into the ranks of the black helicopters, contrails of doom and George W. Bush evolving from reptiles lunacy.
    Please, come back to planet Earth and make rational statements... based in truth and fact... like you used to do.
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  • AllNiteThingAllNiteThing Posts: 1,114
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Not to bring this thread back on topic or anything (god forbid), but can someone give some kind of definitive proof that he did use the assault rifle? There are both reports that he did (the medical examiner, most news outlets), and reports that he didn't (the 'car trunk' video and various websites). I'm fairly certain it was used, but there is a gun nut at my office who says the car trunk video is a gotcha moment showing the bias of the media, and that the examiner is obviously either incompetent or part of this 'conspiracy'. I'm not one to fall for that bs, but honestly I don't see anything good to refute his argument, other than to say that it's a stretch to think the examiner was wrong. What exactly was that rifle in the trunk and is there any other concrete proof that that or another assault rifle was used in the school?
    The medical examiner said that all of the bodies he examined were killed by "the long gun." Since there was only one long gun found at the scene (the assault rifle), that would be the proof I think.


    Right, but how does it explain the assault rifle being found in the trunk after the attack?
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  • JimmyVJimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,183
    Not to bring this thread back on topic or anything (god forbid), but can someone give some kind of definitive proof that he did use the assault rifle? There are both reports that he did (the medical examiner, most news outlets), and reports that he didn't (the 'car trunk' video and various websites). I'm fairly certain it was used, but there is a gun nut at my office who says the car trunk video is a gotcha moment showing the bias of the media, and that the examiner is obviously either incompetent or part of this 'conspiracy'. I'm not one to fall for that bs, but honestly I don't see anything good to refute his argument, other than to say that it's a stretch to think the examiner was wrong. What exactly was that rifle in the trunk and is there any other concrete proof that that or another assault rifle was used in the school?

    If the medical examiner is being discounted as part of some liberal conspiracy (seriously?) I don't think there will be any proof out there that will convince the skeptics.
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,963
    edited January 2013
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Not to bring this thread back on topic or anything (god forbid), but can someone give some kind of definitive proof that he did use the assault rifle? There are both reports that he did (the medical examiner, most news outlets), and reports that he didn't (the 'car trunk' video and various websites). I'm fairly certain it was used, but there is a gun nut at my office who says the car trunk video is a gotcha moment showing the bias of the media, and that the examiner is obviously either incompetent or part of this 'conspiracy'. I'm not one to fall for that bs, but honestly I don't see anything good to refute his argument, other than to say that it's a stretch to think the examiner was wrong. What exactly was that rifle in the trunk and is there any other concrete proof that that or another assault rifle was used in the school?
    The medical examiner said that all of the bodies he examined were killed by "the long gun." Since there was only one long gun found at the scene (the assault rifle), that would be the proof I think.


    Right, but how does it explain the assault rifle being found in the trunk after the attack?
    I am assuming that the initial report about the gun being found in the truck of the car was wrong altogether... Another possibility is that he brought it back to the car before blowing his own brains out.
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  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    Not to bring this thread back on topic or anything (god forbid), but can someone give some kind of definitive proof that he did use the assault rifle? There are both reports that he did (the medical examiner, most news outlets), and reports that he didn't (the 'car trunk' video and various websites). I'm fairly certain it was used, but there is a gun nut at my office who says the car trunk video is a gotcha moment showing the bias of the media, and that the examiner is obviously either incompetent or part of this 'conspiracy'. I'm not one to fall for that bs, but honestly I don't see anything good to refute his argument, other than to say that it's a stretch to think the examiner was wrong. What exactly was that rifle in the trunk and is there any other concrete proof that that or another assault rifle was used in the school?

    Can I just point out that the AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle that just shares designs with an assault rifle.....
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  • AllNiteThingAllNiteThing Posts: 1,114
    JimmyV wrote:
    Not to bring this thread back on topic or anything (god forbid), but can someone give some kind of definitive proof that he did use the assault rifle? There are both reports that he did (the medical examiner, most news outlets), and reports that he didn't (the 'car trunk' video and various websites). I'm fairly certain it was used, but there is a gun nut at my office who says the car trunk video is a gotcha moment showing the bias of the media, and that the examiner is obviously either incompetent or part of this 'conspiracy'. I'm not one to fall for that bs, but honestly I don't see anything good to refute his argument, other than to say that it's a stretch to think the examiner was wrong. What exactly was that rifle in the trunk and is there any other concrete proof that that or another assault rifle was used in the school?

    If the medical examiner is being discounted as part of some liberal conspiracy (seriously?) I don't think there will be any proof out there that will convince the skeptics.


    I hear you, I was just hoping someone could come up with a better argument than "I doubt the medical examiner would lie", especially when there IS video of the cops taking a rifle out of the trunk, and news clips reporting it wasn't used. I agree it's an outlandish conspiracy, but hard to disprove completely without insulting the other person for being loony.
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  • so,if stays at the car,whit what he killed those poor kids?

    with his "assault eyelook",or with is "assault farts"?

    I have been a victim of a fart assault. Many times. My cousin used to hold me down and fart in my face. I was much smaller and younger at the time. There wasn't much I could do except hold my breath and pray to God I wouldn't get pink eye.
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  • AllNiteThingAllNiteThing Posts: 1,114
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    The medical examiner said that all of the bodies he examined were killed by "the long gun." Since there was only one long gun found at the scene (the assault rifle), that would be the proof I think.


    Right, but how does it explain the assault rifle being found in the trunk after the attack?
    I am assuming that the initial report about the gun being found in the truck of the car was wrong altogether... Another possibility is that he brought it back to the car before blowing his own brains out.


    So I guess what I'm looking for is a specific report that says 1 assault rifle was found on the scene, and ANOTHER was found in the trunk of his car. If only 1 was found, and it was in the trunk after the murders, it would be hard to argue that it was used in the attacks, no?
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