are incredibly nasty - and dense - and insane, I might add. Never in my life would I believe any human being would actually DEFEND the kind of gun used to kill 20 children and 6 adults (some children were hit 11 times - can you imagine what they looked like?) And you are defending the right to own such a weapon. Now, I would really include you with the gun-loving crazies.

UPDATE: CT State Medical Examiner Says Bushmaster Rifle Did The Killing

Earlier reports claiming that Adam Lanza's primary weapons during the massacre were a pair of handguns has been refuted by Conn. Chief Medical Examiner Dr. H Wayne Carver, who said early today that the deaths can be attributed to the long rifle, which means it was the .223 Bushmaster. It's a very destructive weapon.

The weapons that use .223 caliber ammunition range from bolt-action rifles to the more "assault" type semi-automatic rifles. New Jersey and Connecticut both have strict gun laws in place banning their own definitions of "assault" rifles — and anything over a 10 round magazine — but a simple trip across the border into Pennsylvania can secure weapons illegal in both those aforementioned states, or one can just buy weapons on the web.

The .223 round is slightly lighter than the military grade version, but reacts the same on impact and is pretty much as deadly. It's designed to bounce around inside the body once it makes contact with bone.The AR-15 is the civilian version of the military's M16 and has been in production since Vietnam. ....