Byline: MICHAEL OLESKER
The folks at the gun shop tell me that, yes, this Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle I'm holding is pretty much like the one used to shoot 13 people in the recent sniper unpleasantness. The last word, unpleasantness, is used diplomatically. If we're talking about weapons, it upsets the National Rifle Association types so much when we point out that people occasionally use the damned things to slaughter people.
The Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle, say the nice folks at White Marsh Arms in Reisterstown, Md., is certainly not intended to shoot people. True, sometimes it unfortunately works out that way. And, true, once a gun leaves a store, there's no telling how in the world it might be used. And, true, …
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