Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Just a question...

...prompted by this story...

More than a hundred incendiary devices — including homemade pipe bombs, explosive boxes with booby traps and altered tear gas devices — were found in the Baytown area home of the former police officer authorities said fatally shot a Chambers County deputy and then killed himself.
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Ortez used a high-powered rifle to kill Detwiler, the sheriff said. He then turned the rifle on himself and took his life with a single shot to the head, investigators said.

High-powered rifle. I see this phrase so often and I just don't understand why. Is there really a such thing as a "low-powered rifle"? Hell, even a .22 will kill if you put the bullet in the right spot. And this, this was just great...

Investigators recovered an unknown number of guns, including rapid fire assault rifles, from his home.
Rapid-fire assault rifles. Huh. as opposed to, what, high-powered long-range sniper rifles? And of course, plenty of this same sort of assclownery in the comments...
Two hundred million guns in our society versus a valuable public servant and 3 fatherless children.
So it was the fault of the 50 million-plus gun owners that this guy was cut down? I guess to some people it is.
I've read elsewhere that the deputy's killer had a history of domestic violence and assault. Chalk up one more reason I am 110 percent in favor of women learning to shoot and defend themselves with firearms. Sure would have been nice if one of his victims had put him in the ground before last week.