Dem Claims He Couldn’t Find 1 Example of an Armed Individual Stopping an Assailant With an ‘Assault Weapon’
A House Democratic lawmaker says he was unable to find even one example of a time when an assailant with an “assault weapon” was stopped by someone else with a gun. During a hearing on Thursday, Rep. David Cicilline…
A House Democratic lawmaker says he was unable to find even one example of a time when an assailant with an “assault weapon” was stopped by someone else with a gun.
During a hearing on Thursday, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) claimed, “I don‘t think there is a single incident — maybe there is one, but I have not found one — of an assailant using an assault weapon that was stopped by a person with a gun.”
“Maybe there’s one of the thousands and thousands and thousands of shootings,” he added.
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The hearing comes in the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The shooters in all of those shootings reportedly used an AR-15 or similar rifle.
Calls for Gun control have been revived in the wake of those shootings, which occurred within a matter of weeks.
While the Rhode Island Democrat insisted he could not find one example of an assailant armed with a so-called “assault weapon” being stopped by another person with a gun, there was a recent example.
Last week, an individual with an AR-15-style rifle