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Originally Posted by GoodLife
I give you Lawrence Tribe, renowned Constitutional Law and gun expert. The stupid burns. Nobody can fire a semi automatic rifle at 10 rounds per second. He did get the R in rifle part correct.
Laurence Tribe
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@tribelaw
The R in NRA stands for RIFLE. The AR-15 is a semi-automatic RIFLE. Its bullets fly at over 2,000 mph. It easily fires over 10 rounds PER SECOND. Its only purpose is to rip human beings apart and leave them dead. Nobody needs it for defense or for sport. It should be BANNED.
7:27 AM - Feb 24, 2018
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It should be obvious to even a person with a modicum of intelligence, that Tribe was referencing an AR15 outfitted with legal bump stocks.
Regardless, he at least had the integrity to publicly apologize for his incorrect statement.
https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tw...35732624674818
Then again, he wasn't that far off originally.
A bump fire stock made Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock's guns deadlier - and it's legal - CBS News
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The modifications he appears to have made to his semi-automatic AR-15s, which by one estimate allowed him to fire as many as nine rounds per second, can be bought in many different forms on the internet.
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I think the obvious is the attempt to parse, get hung up on semantics and try to deflect from the the underlying truth...that being the firing rate of a weapon that has only one primary purpose.