Amazing that the Democrats can lie in the national news and get away with it.
The gun used in Ct. was Not a "rapid" fire gun. It did not shoot any more rapid than other semi-automatics that are not considered "assault" weapons.
The gun used in Ct. was Not a "rapid" fire gun. It did not shoot any more rapid than other semi-automatics that are not considered "assault" weapons.
RICHMOND, Va. — Sen. Mark R. Warner, among the few Senate Democrats to hold favor with the National Rifle Association, said Monday that the Connecticut elementary school massacre has reversed his stand on assault weapons.
Warner endorsed President Barack Obama’s support for restricting rapid-fire rifles like those a gunman used in the massacre of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“The status quo is not acceptable anymore,” the centrist former Virginia governor said in interviews Monday at the state Capitol, recalling the horror his three daughters expressed Friday at the second-worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Its death toll is surpassed only by 2007 slayings of 32 people at Virginia Tech.
“There needs to be appropriate restrictions on these tools of mass-killing,” Warner said, calling for tighter screening of gun buyers and stricter access to powerful, combat-style firearms capable of dispensing numerous shots in a short time.