The following is excerpted from Drew Westen's "The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation" (Perseus, 2007). It first appeared in the American Prospect.
"On April 16, Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, carried two semiautomatic pistols onto campus and killed 32 people. It was the deadliest shooting in modern American history.
The following week, a nation listened in horror as witnesses recounted stories of how they had barricaded desks against their classroom doors to keep the psychotic young man from entering, only to hear him spend a round of ammo, drop the spent clip, and reload in seconds.
Democratic leaders offered the requisite condolences. But that's all they offered. They didn't mention that the Republican Congress had let the Brady Act, which banned the sale of semiautomatic weapons, sunset in 2004."No. Of course no such thing happened. The Brady Bill DID NOT ban semiautomatic weapons, it banned certain rifles that looked too evil for their own good. And please now; enough already with the korean-killer dropping spent "clips". The barricaded students would have remained barricaded even if the korean-killer used 10 round MAGAZINES instead of 13 round MAGAZINES.
Although, perhaps this moron is an expert at charging a fortified position so let's give him the benefit of the doubt, shall we? Maybe he is extraordinarily adept at the 2-way-range and has upon countless occasions hurled himself at men firing full-auto as well as semi-auto weapons, and in his opinion fewer rounds might have saved the day.
Thats the ticket.
Thanks to The Smallest Minority
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