Regarding the Bristol, Connecticut Shooting.

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I own 9 guns made in my home state of Connecticut. 3 Winchesters, 3 Colts, 1 Charter Arms, a Marlin model 39. and a Ruger Single 6.

I have toured the Colt factory and the Winchester Museum. All of us who lived there, hunted, used firearms had a deep sense of state pride.

That has so changed since the Sandy Hook Shooting, 2,032 other school shootings since 1970, 27 in 2022 so far and now the deliberate ambush of three police officers. Two were killed and one wounded when 80 shots were fired with an AR 15 clone.

I called my cousins there to offer my condolences. Their community and Police Departments across America will never be the same again.

One cousin is 82, the oldest in my hunting family that has spanned 4 generations. There is still pride that Colt makes rifles for our servicemen. But also there is shame about how the AR-15 and it’s clones, a design native to Connecticut, have done irreparable damage to America in the hands of madmen.

Assault rifles, including AR’s and their clones have been banned there since 2013, a year after Sandy Hook, my old swimming hole on the Housatonic River.

The madmen in America are fully armed. Feeling the deepest sadness about this is totally appropriate.
 
2032 school shootings since 1970 and 27 this year?
I must watch a different news channel.
There hasn't been 27 school shootings since 1970.
School shootings have really ramped up since Covid died out, but smaller school shootings do not even make the news anymore.

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2022/01

 
Fights at school where some prick pulls out a gun shouldn't be counted as school shootings, which we all colloquially understand to be when a whacko (or a couple whackos) go into a school with the intent to murder a bunch of students or staff. The disingenuous nature of these conversations is one reason they never amount to anything.
 
You my friend have an agenda. Every story you tell is so full of holes it’s not even funny.

You keep bringing up school shootings; let’s look at some of the shooting that have took place in 2022. The data that is used is flawed.
 

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I was just thinking about how the Ruger mini 14 has just avoided being on so many state assault rifle ban lists. Like this rifle just avoided all the flak.

I had heard that the Ruger Co. decided not to produce any more factory mags over 5 rounds but there are still so many after market hi cap magazines out there. Do they fit the new mini 14's ?

Ruger marketing is so politically correct too. The mini 14 Ranch rifle. Slick and smooth.

Other than the Miami shoot out with the FBI and the Norway shooting the mini 14 is rather benign. Seems like the bad guys do not want it. They want the Black rifles.

I just checked an online site for women's underwear. Used to be when they sold women's knickers in a 7 day color pack with the days of the week written on them, Saturday, date night. was always black.
 
Elvira. The Terminator, Dracula, Hells Angles, Zorro, Black Mamba, Darth Vader, The Power of the Dark Side. Compared to a Black Rifle,, a wooden stocked Mini 14 looks like a little league baseball bat.
 
School shootings have really ramped up since Covid died out, but smaller school shootings do not even make the news anymore.

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2022/01

Probably be best if none made the news. I suspect one of the major reason's for them is the coverage they get on the news. Shoot up a school and everyone in the country knows who you are!
 
Probably be best if none made the news. I suspect one of the major reason's for them is the coverage they get on the news. Shoot up a school and everyone in the country knows who you are!
As a field biologist I recognize there are plants and animals called "indicator species" They could be as small as the Delta smelt or as big as a tiger. a bighorn sheep or an endangered tropical orchid. Within their existence they indicate critical details about a much larger story, which it is wise to listen too.

As a retired teacher, I can still recall what is it like to be on total school lockdown while with a class after a real threat was made about a shooter coming to my school. It was a 6th grader high on drugs who had gotten a semi auto handgun and was reported by a friend.

I still have kept that emergency lock down warning on my cell phone and laptop just so that I know it really happened.

People need to know some things else are real, otherwise it is too easy to just ignore the warnings.
 
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