{"id":53933,"date":"2022-07-08T19:20:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53933"},"modified":"2022-07-08T19:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T23:20:23","slug":"ar-15-and-a-candidate-for-florida-house-dist-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/07\/ar-15-and-a-candidate-for-florida-house-dist-77\/","title":{"rendered":"AR-15 and a Candidate for Florida House Dist 77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editorial<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mass murder at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has something in common with America’s deadliest massacres – the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives\u00a0defines\u00a0a semiautomatic rifle as a weapon designed to be fired from the shoulder that \u201cutilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round,\u201d and shoots a single bullet with each pull of the trigger.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AR-15 was designed in the mid-1950s by the California-based small arms manufacturer ArmaLite. (\u201cAR\u201d stands for \u201cArmaLite Rifle,\u201d not \u201cassault rifle,\u201d as is often assumed.) The original AR-15 had a \u201cselect fire\u201d capability, giving users the option to shoot in semiautomatic mode; fully automatic mode, which continues firing<\/a> until the trigger is released; or burst mode, which ejects three bullets per trigger pull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was intended for the U.S. military, which was in need of a lightweight rifle with expanded ammunition capacity. But after it failed to attract buyers, ArmaLite sold its AR-15 design to Colt, one of America\u2019s oldest gunmakers. Colt made some design tweaks to the AR-15, and in 1963 it marketed the rifle (successfully<\/a>) to the military as the M16. It developed a semiautomatic version of the AR-15 for the civilian market at around the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gun rights activists also say AR-15s are used for home self-defense. In 2017, a commentator with the now-defunct NRA-TV put it bluntly<\/a>: \u201cI personally think it is a mistake for people to say it\u2019s used for hunting, or it\u2019s used for target shooting. I have my AR-15 to kill people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Variations of the AR-15 were used in this month’s massacre at a Buffalo supermarket; at a Texas Walmart in 2019; a Florida high school in 2018; a Texas church and a Las Vegas concert in 2017; and Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AR-15 style weapon is the most popular rifle in America with well over 11 million. And they are rarely used in crime. But, the AR-15 is the weapon of choice of the worst mass murderers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AR-15 ammunition travels up to three times the speed of sound. And as we first showed you in 2018, we’re going to slow that down – so you can see why the AR-15’s high-velocity ammo is the fear of every American emergency room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mass shootings were once so shocking they were impossible to forget. Now they’ve become so frequent it’s hard to remember them all. In October 2018, at a Pittsburgh synagogue, eleven were killed, and six wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo from Tiffany Esposito an (R) candidate for Florida State House Facebook account <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

So, why is Tiffany Esposito an (R) candidate for Florida State House show herself with an AR-15? Since the NRA is supporting her does she also believe that AR-15 is to kill people?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Esposito laughing your ass off about the issue <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The AR-15, like its military version, is designed to kill people quickly and in large numbers, hence the term assault-style rifle, gun control advocates told NPR in 2018<\/a>. They say it has no valid recreational use, and civilians should not be allowed to own them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why is Tiffany Esposito holding an AR-15 and pointing it to fire?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She should apologize to every family and every school child in your district. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporting the second amendment to bear arms is fine but supporting AR-15s is not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pulse Night Club shooting the shooter used an AR-15 49 people died.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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