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Correct, bolt-action weapons typically do not have magazines. That does not prevent them from being used on rampages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whi
by cobrausn 14y ago
Correct, bolt-action weapons typically do not have magazines. That does not prevent them from being used on rampages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
The lunatic who attacked the school was not trained, but was also attacking cornered, defenseless children at short range. Practically any firearm would have been used in this attack to equivalent effect.
As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that might have stopped this (once it started) would have been a police officer at the school or an armed teacher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_High_School_shooting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_High_School_shooting). We might have better been able to prevent the shooting from taking place at all with better mental health care. They weren't even his guns, so gun control that inspects the purchaser would not have worked.
- angersock 14y agoNitpick: detachable magazines. Then again, something like a lever-action .22 or even a Mauser would do in a pinch for something like this.