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You are still hearing the recoil of the firing that preceded it so is pretty overwhelming, it sounds like automatic but it's a semi automatic weapon and of course the capability of these things to reload and their ability to carry large-scale magazines gives single person the capability doing a lot of damage so therefore, obviously the only medication is another armed person like law enforcement officer. jon: there again, i had to get all kinds of credit to the officer who, just guessing, was carrying only side arm, a pistol and took on a guy with a semi automatic rifle. >> train prevails and ...

Of the firing that preceded it so is pretty overwhelming, it sounds like automatic but it's a semi automatic weapon and of course the capability of these things to reload and their ability to carry large-scale magazines gives single person the capability doing a lot of damage so therefore, obviously the only medication is another armed person like law enforcement officer. jon: there again, i had to get all kinds of credit to the officer who, just guessing, was carrying only side arm, a pistol and took on a guy with a semi automatic rifle. >> train prevails and a winning attitude and training c...

Of the firing that preceded it so is pretty overwhelming, it sounds like automatic but it's a semi automatic weapon and of course the capability of these things to reload and their ability to carry large-scale magazines gives single person the capability doing a lot of damage so therefore, obviously the only medication is another armed person like law enforcement officer. jon: there again, i had to get all kinds of credit to the officer who, just guessing, was carrying only side arm, a pistol and took on a guy with a semi automatic rifle. >> train prevails and a winning attitude and training c...

Plural. is there anything that i missed? >> no, i think you've got it, alicia. that's the key information. an officer in the mall on an unrelated call, here's the gunshots, and shoots the killer. the killer got all those rounds prior to the officer being able to stop him, that's because even if your present, you can't be the trigger of a semi automatic weapon. they put the rounds out so fast. we've got some death, we've got a lot of destruction, a lot of angsty there, and allen. we have a brave cop who went to the gunfire and stop them. if you didn't stop them, he might've continued his rampag...

Ted williams, back with us. the marks, the mall employee, 50 or 60 shots, that is a stunning and frightening number especially if this was a handgun because handguns generally don't carry clips with more than say ten shots in them. >> absolutely right, john. a lot of times when there are shootings of this nature, the various individuals who witness or hear something, they have gunfire that may have been more or less than the amount of guns that were shot. but in this case, if you are talking 50 or 60 shots, you're talking about a semi automatic weapon and you certainly are not talking about a ...