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billh58

(6,655 posts)
Tue May 30, 2017, 01:11 AM May 2017

Police: Man fires AK-47 while driving on Florida highway

Police say a man fired an AK-47 while driving down a Florida highway, damaging at least two passing vehicles.

Miami-Dade Police Detective Daniel Ferrin said the 36-year-old suspect began shooting from inside his Toyota Corolla around 1 a.m. Monday as he was driving south on the Palmetto Expressway.

Two vehicles were struck by bullets. Ferrin said one victim drove himself to a hospital with a minor head injury due to debris from the shooting.

Ferrin said the suspect hit a median, drove into oncoming traffic and crashed into a wall before exchanging gunfire with law enforcement officers who were approaching him. The man eventually surrendered.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-man-fires-ak-47-driving-florida-highway-47708652

Florida Man strikes again. Ted Nugent must be so proud...

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Police: Man fires AK-47 while driving on Florida highway (Original Post) billh58 May 2017 OP
Well, why not? Still In Wisconsin May 2017 #1
And yet ANOTHER reason to not move to florida! angstlessk May 2017 #2
Yet, gun fanciers claim their favorite compensater - "assault" rifles - are never used in crime. Hoyt May 2017 #3
Many of them billh58 May 2017 #4
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. Yet, gun fanciers claim their favorite compensater - "assault" rifles - are never used in crime.
Tue May 30, 2017, 05:51 AM
May 2017

billh58

(6,655 posts)
4. Many of them
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:04 AM
May 2017

also claim that an armed society is a "polite" society. I'm trying to understand why right-wingers need an assault rifle to be "polite."

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