Sports Illustrated's Peter King, probably the best working NFL writer, blames Ft. Hood and Orlando shootings on "murderous handguns.And then there's this:"I will not go quietly into the night on this one. America needs to do something about idiots with handguns. How many more Fort Hoods and Orlandos do there have to be before our political leaders have the guts to severely restrict access to murderous weapons?
The media is wasting very little time informing us that the weapon used by Major Nidal Malik Hasan in his rampage at Fort Hood was a “cop killer.”Has anyone been killed with a hammer lately? Or knife? Or screwdriver? Should they be deemed "murderous", or perhaps "cop killers"?
Ft. Hood terrorist used a cop killer FN-Five Seven tactical pistol—20 round clip — Examiner
‘Cop Killer” Gun though to Be Used in Ft. Hood Shooting, Offiicals Said — ABC News
Fort Hood shootings: gunman used ‘cop killer’ weapon in massacre at US Army base — UK Telegraph
Ironically, there is no known record of that weapon even being used to kill a police officer in the United States, and there is a distinct possibility that Sgt. Kimberly Munley, wounded while engaging Hasan, may have been the first American law enforcement officer ever shot with a Five-seveN.
How did the Five-seveN get it’s “cop killer” reputation, then?
It was created in a Brady Campaign press release in February of 2005.
It's the person holding the gun, not the gun, that's the problem.
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Back here in Maryland in 1978, a (black) 15 year was taken into custody for questioning regarding the rifling of laundrymat change boxes.
He managed to get the handgun of one of the officers and shot two of them dead.
I guess the policeman's gun is a cop killer
http://www.wusa9.com/news/columnist/blogs/2008/07/30-years-and-one-week-ago-today.html
This is really evil. It's the fact that the soldiers were unarmed on base (with Maj. Hasan knew) that caused so much death. How ironic that a civilian police officer by happenstance was able to respond.
On a military base. And so I say again, the anti-gun rhetoric is just plain evil.
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