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Ralph,
What I was talking about was that you asked me a question something like this:
"How often does an attack with an unauthorized automatic weapon occur in the United States?"
Like most other people, who watch TV & movies, I assumed it was pretty much a weekly occurrence in Banger Land.
In fact, when I have asked this question over dinner, I've gotten answers that ranged from one a week or even higher.
We're all trained by pop culture to believe what we see on TV and in movies.
We all know how to kill a vampire, right? Even though they don't actually exist.
The truth is that there has been exactly ONE shooting with a fully automatic weapon since 1956!
I remember spending six hours researching this and coming up empty.
Okay, there were actually two others but both of those were "authorized."
Not the shootings, but the possession of the weapon itself.
Both were police officers who killed their wives with an automatic weapon, but both of them were fully authorized to have those weapons. (I don't actually know if they used the weapons on full automatic or not.)
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