Internet Kills Three!

Note: Well, Blogger decided to ream me while posting. It seemed to eat my first post, then refused to post my rewrite. Then, after a five hour nap in the middle of the day (ain't writing grand!) I wake up to find both versions have been posted and broadcast to the world via RSS. A rare peek into the mind of this madman and his 'process.' Or something.

On October 18th, the following exchange was posted to "The Firing Range" at the Something Awful forums:

forbiddenforum: I have a problem. I live in orange county and am trying to buy hevi-shot buckshot, or just winchester if they dont have it. Im 19 Year old And Every shop I go to That has it (grants guns, Saddleback gun store,Yeti gunsmith) Claims its a waste of money and birdshot is better for personal defence.They always ask me why I want to buy hevi shot for my remington 870 home defense,Like im buying some Armour piercing bullets or something.
Shesh!
Is there something against buckshot in the shotgun world, To me bird shot is like less than lethal, you use it if you want your attacked to run around after you shot him, If i have people like last halloween, Bringing out a rifle and shotting my garage and my dads leg (broke the bone and everything) I dont think birdshot will cut it.
Basically IM asking
1. Is birdshot ok for defence
2. Any orange county shop that you know doesnt give you a mouth if you try to buy hevi shot buckshot.
3.Why is buckshot like the new ak-47 barrel, its taboo.

Im currently at work atm, And dont think I could get my dad to show his legs on the internet...So no pics,sorry.

radioactivelego: Let me guess, you went to the fucking Stockade.

The box of truth proved that a wooden door could stop bird shot. It really isn't good for personal defense as, well, it's meant for birds.

Just get some buckshot at Turners in Fountain Valley or get some online via someone out of Orange County.

forbiddenforum: Turners in Fountain Valley Thanks

Duh I swear the USMC and MArine guys I was buying from hate to give away buckshot.
The halloween engagement Im especting Is a gang that comes around ever chrismas ,in a truck and goes and shoots at everyones puckins. they use very powerful bb guns or steal paintballs or something since its very quite.

I knew birdshot was grips, they just dont want me to use buckshot
#1 buckshot is the best...but might as well use slug , I want 00 For its penetration off the stertnum, its like 00 buckshot is a bunch off 9mm rounds heading your way!

Then, on October 28th, 19 year old William Freund of Aliso Viejo, California, put on a black cape, helmet and paintball mask, walked out of his house with a shotgun loaded with buckshot, and murdered his neighbors -- Christina Smith, 22, and her father Vernon, 45. He took another shot at a neighbor, but the gun misfired, after which he returned home to commit suicide.

Of course, he was no stranger to internet forums, and had even written about his love of firearms and suicidal thoughts. A few days later, a member of Something Awful put two and two together and identified forbiddenforum as William.

That this happened in a middle-class suburb of Los Angeles and involved white people -- a 22 year old woman, even -- means it's national news. So how long do you think it's going to take before a reporter finds the threads, and the sensationalists start blaming the innernets? Oh, wait, too late.

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