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Post by Police Moderator on Jul 16, 2011 6:51:24 GMT -5
The Assassins' Weapon of Choice
Glock helped create the modern U.S. gun market—and makes a preferred killing tool for criminals and the mentally disturbed.
Jan 12, 2011 Gun-control advocates hope last weekend’s Arizona massacre will finally bring scrutiny to the secretive—and many say, sinister—Austrian company that made the semi-automatic pistol used to grievously wound Representative Gabrielle Giffords and leave six others dead. The family-run gunmaker, the Glock company, headquartered in a small Austrian village north of Vienna, came from nowhere 25 years ago to turn itself into one of the world’s leading suppliers of handguns, with special success selling to U.S. law-enforcement agencies and private gun-lovers. Glock helped recreate the American gun market, convincing its customers to replace clumsy six-bullet revolvers—once a gun of choice among private buyers—with lightweight, simple-to-fire, highly lethal semi-automatic pistols capable of pumping out dozens of rounds of ammunition without reloading. (Giffords was a Glock owner herself, telling The New York Times last year, “I have a Glock 9 millimeter, and I’m a pretty good shot.”) While no one denies that the vast majority of Glock’s American customers are law-abiding, the company’s products have repeatedly turned up in the bloodied hands of criminals and the mentally disturbed, including Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old Arizonan charged with last weekend’s killings, and Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech senior who mowed down 32 people at the school in 2007. Read more: the daily beast |
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Post by Tsavodiner on Jul 16, 2011 16:16:20 GMT -5
Psychos also aspire to power and positions of authority like elected office.
Does that mean we should ban those too?
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Post by Warkitty on Jul 16, 2011 20:24:20 GMT -5
Yes, and I'll do just that as soon as I'm recognized as your benevolent monarch.
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Post by goomba on Jul 16, 2011 22:03:40 GMT -5
Yes, and I'll do just that as soon as I'm recognized as your benevolent monarch. Yes O great one! |
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Post by Tsavodiner on Jul 17, 2011 3:58:50 GMT -5
Yes, and I'll do just that as soon as I'm recognized as your benevolent monarch. Baby, you've ALWAYS ruled ME!  |
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Post by professorx on Jul 17, 2011 11:12:41 GMT -5
The Assassins' Weapon of ChoiceGun-control advocates hope last weekend’s Arizona massacre will finally bring scrutiny to the secretive—and many say, sinister— Glock is well made, mass produced, easy to find and reasonably priced. If it is the choice of assassins, then Honda is the choice of those that commit vehicular homicides. I've never seen them refered to as secret and sinister. I wonder how many innocent lives have been saved due to this same firearms company? |
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Post by Justin Thyme on Jul 18, 2011 11:29:00 GMT -5
That has got to be the most bias and contrived bit of reporting I've ever read. Where did that title come from? A professional assassin was really only mentioned once in the article: Whatever its response might be to the events in Tucson, Glock would find it difficult to deny that its phenomenal success in selling guns in the American market has come in spite of longstanding allegations of corruption within the company’s U.S. subsidiary, as well as murderous internal intrigue, including a 1999 assassination attempt against the company’s founder, Gaston Glock, blamed by European prosecutors on one of Glock’s closest business associates.
In the attack in a darkened garage in Luxembourg, a hit man, a former professional wrestler and French Legionnaire, attempted to bash in Glock’s skull using a hardened rubber mallet, a weapon apparently selected because it would leave a wound that would that appear accidental. That sure doesn't sound to me like this assassin chose a Glock! And this bit about Loughner could have been stopped by an extension of the Assault Weapon ban on large capacity magazines: "If the ban was still in place, Loughner could have been stopped long before he killed so many people, since he would have needed to stop and replace the magazine, Vice said. “Loughner would have been limited to 10 rounds, which means that many lives in Arizona would have been saved.” Does this guy seriously think Loughner would have only carried one magazine? I think he had several with him when he attacked. Does this guy know how long it takes to swap out magazines? A five second pause at most. Glock isn't preferred by assasins and the criminally disturbed for any reason other than they are the most bought brand of handgun in the US. Thirty years ago it would have been a S&W. |
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Post by cadillacdude1975 on Jul 18, 2011 20:55:11 GMT -5
a gun is a tool. a tool will do the bidding of its master. my guns do not wake up and ask me who are we going to shoot today? people like the writer of that article are only taking stabs in the dark.
while we are on this type of reasoning, lets sue bill gates for all the hackers and the damage that they do, and im sure there are a few million males out there who would like to sue Larry Flynt for giving them carpel tunnel syndrome.
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