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Bob
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Bob asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 3 years ago

How come guys like Charles Whitman can cause such death and horror with a bolt action rifle As a guy with an assault rifle?

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  • 3 years ago

    his shooting spree lasted 96 minutes. Far longer than recent assult rifle attacks have lasted.

  • He had the high ground; no one could get to him in time. And it wasn't in this time where school shootings are, sadly, expected.

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