What skill is required to load bullets into a mag, slot the mag in, chamber a round and pull the trigger? The mechanical process is no more difficult than it is with a host of everyday equipment eg changing a battery in a household appliance, food mixer, erecting and collapsing a baby buggy.
The skill of knowing how to release the magazine, knowing that the bullets need ot be loaded into the magazine, knowing that you need to manually feed the first round into the chamber and knowing hwo to chamber a round for starters. These are all things that do not need to be done with the shotguns they owned. The shotguns they woned either took one or 2 shells at a time loaded into the breech of the gun and needed no manual feeding of a round into the chamber it was already in the breech when loaded.
All guns are different and knowing how to use one does not instantly mean you can use another. Even handguns are different some are double action others single action. The difference is that the hammer has to be cocked to fire for single action but wiht double action the trigger operated the hammer always even if not cocked. That alone can make the difference between a gun firing or not. I watched with great amusement as someone who never used a revolver before (his only experience with revolvers was toy cap guns) took more than 20 minutes to figure out how to get the cylinder to swing out. He though it would open like a cap gun so tried pulling on the rod that is used to eject the shells. He had no idea there was a thumb lever that makes it open. Someone took pity on him and told him there is a thumb switch and he then figured out how to work it finally.
I cannot recall what type of car I had my formal driving lessons in but my first personally owned car was a mini 1275GT (same car as Marc Bolan died in). Since then I have owned and had access to a wide range of motor vehicles. The controls and transmission are all different. I don't have to think about it I get in and go because I know how to drive a car ie the basic skills are transferable in the same way that they are with all equipment. including firearms.
How do you know the first semi auto NB owned was the one purchased in Nov '84? Prove it? How do you know JB initiated the purchase and not NB? If the relationship was strained why did the pair make the purchase together? SC didn't need to be interested in guns to pick it up and fire it. I am not particularly interested in my car but it doesn't stop me getting in it and driving it. I am not particularly interested in my vacuum cleaner but it doesn't stop me turning it on to vacuum. I am not particularly interested in my mobile phone but it doesn't stop me manipulating it via the screen to perform various functions. How interested does someone have to be in something to perform a function/pick up a semi-auto rifle, prepare it for fire and pull the trigger?
I wish I was clever enough to come up with the adoption, attachment and neuroscientific theories, research and studies relevant to the WHF tragedy but I have to hand the credit for that to all the various professors and doctors at the Ivy League unis in US.
Whoa you're resulting to emotional blackmail now are you? Bit big girls blousy. I am shameless in my smearing of SC? I haven't seen you come to her defence when posters refer to her as "promiscuous" and worse.
What evidence do you have that NB, JB, her farm hand boyfriend and or a.n others didn't provide same basic instruction? It should be fairly obvious that if a female grows up on a farm with a brother as an only sibling she will have sufficient exposure/experience to guns to pick one up, perform the most basic functions and fire it. I have already stated that complete novices should have been placed in a room where they witnessed a proficient operator/handler load and fire the weapon in question half a dozen times and then see how many of the novices were capable of duplicating the action.
She didn't need to learn to drive as she lived in London. A car is a pain in London with parking and traffic. CC was some years older than SC and he didn't learn to drive until June funded his lessons. Please provide my post where I stated that Justice Drake's summation was in anyway a factor in the MoJ of the Bridgewater 4? I simply pointed out that JB and the Bridgwater 4 shared the same trial judge. Crucial difference between Lynette Frome and Sheila Caffell is that Lynette Frome did not grow up on a farm where a wide range of firearms were kept and used. Lynette Frome's father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother a homemaker. SC's father was a former RAF pilot and farmer and her mother a farmer too. But hey that's Skip's peverse logic.
The proof are the accounts of the witnesses that it was the first semi-auto. You bear the burden of proving otehrwise but can't.
You also bear the burden of establishing she was trianed to use weapons, particuarly semi-autos. Jeremy iniially claimed he taught her how to fire the murde rwepaon but when giving his statements and uring his interrogation he stated the opposite and denied telling police he taught her how to use the murder wepaon.
Witnesses said she had no interest in guns and worse said that June told them that Jeremy wanted to teach her how to load the magazine but she wasn't intereste din learning. SInce she wasn't interested in learning that refutes your suggesiton she was interested in learning how to use it.
You intentionally ignroe the evidence because it is inconvenient to your agenda. You ignore everything inconvenient to your agenda from ignoring the medical testimony that her fatal wound would result in drawback to the evidence Neville struggled with his killer. You just dismiss and ignore eveyrthing that proves Jeremy did it so you can move forward with your nonsense claims that Sheila did it because she was adopted.
