Guns: how much longer will it take ....

we've got a serious problem in this country.

A family of six came under fire along a stretch of Missouri highway last week while on their way to vacation, and a 22-year-old mother is accused of pulling the trigger.

According to police, the family from Tennessee was heading to Kansas City on I-55 in their Nissan Pathfinder on Friday when a Ford Focus started tailgating the SUV. The Pathfinder driver braked to tell the Focus to slow down or go around, KMOV reported.

The Focus sped up, got next to the Pathfinder, and the passenger, Shanyka Fouche, pulled out a gun and began shooting, police told KMOV.

Bullets flew into the cabin of the family’s Pathfinder, striking the dad in his hip, KSDK reported. One round also hit a tire, popping it, the station reported. No one else was hurt, and the dad is expected to recover.

The car sped off, but the oldest of the couple’s children, ranging from 2 to 11 years old, managed to memorize the car’s plate number, KTVI reported. Police were able to track the vehicle and pulled it over about an hour later.

“As he was getting shot at he thinks enough to look at the license plate and memorizes the license plate of the car which enabled us to use On Star,” Pevely Police Chief Alan Eickhoff told the TV station. “He is actually the hero of this incident.”

When officers arrested Fouche, they found two small children in the car, including a 2-year-old, outlets report.

According to KSDK, the 2-year-old is Fouche’s child.

Fouche is facing 10 charges, including assault, endangering the welfare of a child, and armed criminal action, the outlet reported.

She is being held at the Jefferson County Jail without bond.

The car sped off, but the oldest of the couple's children, ranging from 2 to 11 years old, managed to memorize the car's plate number, KTVI reported. Police were able to track the vehicle and pulled it over about an hour later.

"As he was getting shot at he thinks enough to look at the license plate and memorizes the license plate of the car which enabled us to use On Star," Pevely Police Chief Alan Eickhoff told the TV station. "He is actually the hero of this incident."

Who does that leave as the liar

How is 60 Minutes' documentary about AR-15s bogus?

...but they falsely portrayed it as the AR-15 being unusually deadly.

Um, this ideologically motivated person apparently missed the point, which was to compare the deadliness of two popular calibers used in two popular firearms.

Handguns like the 9mm are commonly used for civilian self-defense and by police, where the main goal is to stop an attacker.

The 5.56 NATO used in the AR-15 was developed to meet the requirements of CONARC for a new military rifle, the goal being to seriously incapacitate or kill enemy soldiers.

The .223 used in some versions of the AR-15 is very similar in design and performance and is designed to kill, not wound, small and medium-sized game.

Didn't you see where I directly addressed that point by denouncing it as outright fraud?

The AR-15 chambered in 5.56 has exactly the same common uses.

The 9mm was developed for use against enemy soldiers too.

They were also effective and quick to fire if an officer had to quell a mutiny among their own troops.

What was fraudulent about the ballistic gel demonstrations?

Even you agree that 5.56 is more deadly that 9 mm.

Police carry sidearms. Yes, rifles and shotguns are part of their arsenal but not normally carried on the street.

They used the disparity in power between long guns and handguns to misrepresent the AR-15 as being an unusually dangerous weapon.

Only in the sense that long guns are more deadly than handguns.

The police should have long guns easily accessible in their squad cars.