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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN Reporting Police Understating Illinois Shooting #'s. At Least 31 Hospitalized W/Gunshot Wounds
The death toll is going to rise.
calimary
(81,304 posts)Dear God, when does it stop?
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,061 posts)I just watched the news conference on WGN news.
Reporters there are cautioning that both numbers could go higher.
So, the CNN statement seems hyperbolic.
I get no sense they're trying to conceal anything.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)of the hospitalized are gun shot wounds.
ProfessorGAC
(65,061 posts)Just a few seconds ago i heard 32 hospitalized.
So, that number keeps going up. Deaths likely will too.
Several victims are in surgery, same source.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)ornotna
(10,803 posts)She said it sounded like a full auto gun.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)I listened to videos. Any semi-auto can be fired at that pace.
Hugin
(33,162 posts)Each round feeds the next. Waiting for a trigger pull.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Semi is 45-60 rounds per minute. Full auto is around 600-800 rounds per minute. That's not a trivial difference.
Hugin
(33,162 posts)So a waste.
48656c6c6f20
(7,638 posts)I'll get right on to telling the corpses that it wasn't an automatic gun welded by a gun nut in GunMurka that gunned them down.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)The context you replied to was someone saying they thought it as automatic, and me stating "no, you can tell it was just another asshole with an AR-15".
48656c6c6f20
(7,638 posts)I get it.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)I sure as fuck aint' part of the AR-15 fan club.
moonshinegnomie
(2,454 posts)not a full auto. a semi auto. theres a huge difference. on full auto a wapon can fire 10 shots a second. on the video you can clearly hear the rate of fire and its what you would expect from an ar-15 type rifle
Scrivener7
(50,955 posts)of lives in a heartbeat.
enough
(13,259 posts)chowder66
(9,073 posts)calimary
(81,304 posts)Retrograde
(10,137 posts)and the victims are just as dead.
Boomerproud
(7,955 posts)Tell the families that the type of weapon matters.