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:	post by ShadowSD at 2013-01-02 13:58:14

Upon researching this, Boozegod is right, search for the NBC Today Show clip with Pete Williams retracting their earlier report.

Turns out the gun that was left in the trunk was actually the rifle, and he used the semi-automatic handguns to kill everyone.

(Which oddly enough, backs up people on both sides in this thread: the anti-gun control side for pointing out the damage done by weapons other than just rifles, and the pro-gun control side response to that saying any bans would have to affect all weapons capable of firing rapidly.)

My take: mistakes like these by the media come from them getting partial information early on, put together with second-hand accounts from witnesses that may not be accurate ("he had a big gun and a little gun" was a quote from a small child that may have added to the misdirection), and the media feeling the demand from the public to report something instead of waiting a couple weeks for investigators to get less tight-lipped; as a result, early reports on details in these sorts of scenarios are always subject to change in the weeks that follow. That sounds a lot less exciting than some alternate conspiracy theory which I'm sure someone somewhere on the interwebz is selling, but it has the benefit of being almost certainly what happened. Chaos leads to a need for answers. Impatience leads to incorrect answers. It's human nature and a story as old as time.

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