We hear the boringly predictable cry of \u201cban \u2018assault rifles\u2019\u201d after two mass murders of police in recent weeks.\u00a0 In Oakland, as discussed earlier in this blog, four officers were murdered by a stone criminal.\u00a0 Few of the editorials mention that the first two were slain with an ordinary 9mm pistol.\u00a0 The last two victims were killed with a semiautomatic 7.62X39 rifle, by various accounts either an SKS or an \u201cAK47.\u201d The slayer was a paroled, convicted felon with no right to own any firearm, in a state where \u201cassault rifles\u201d are ALREADY forbidden.<\/p>\n
In Pittsburgh, three officers were murdered by an obvious sociopath who was wounded by one of his victims, and surrendered when his vaunted \u201cAK47 assault rifle\u201d jammed.\u00a0 By some accounts, he used an ordinary shotgun to ambush his first two victims.<\/p>\n
When the latter killer learned that a fourth officer he had shot was wounded in the hand as he courageously attempted to drag a mortally wounded brother officer to cover, the confessed murderer expressed surprise and apparent dissatisfaction that he hadn\u2019t killed this cop, too. (Link here<\/a>.)\u00a0 He told police he had been hoping to \u201cgo out in a blaze of glory,\u201d but chose to live so he could write a book about his exploits.\u00a0 Apparently no one told this cretin about laws that prevent convicted criminals from publishing things that bring them profit from their evil deeds.<\/p>\n