C-south
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I really want to know how they have become more deadly.They've actually provably become less attainable over the last 40 years.
I really want to know how they have become more deadly.
I really want to see them argue how a failure button or changing the charging handle made modern ARs more deadly.
High capacity mags have existed and been commercially available for forever, almost 100 years.
5.56 has existed and been commercially available for at least 60 years.
Pistol grips have existed on non pistols since idk even when, at least since the Tommy gun in 20s. Same with foregrips.
Military style weapons have always been available, and in the past actual military weapons were available until the 84 laws.
But thank god we banned silencers and braces. That was at least 50,000 lives saved a year.
I really want to know how they have become more deadly.
I really want to see them argue how a failure button or changing the charging handle made modern ARs more deadly.
High capacity mags have existed and been commercially available for forever, almost 100 years.
5.56 has existed and been commercially available for at least 60 years.
Pistol grips have existed on non pistols since idk even when, at least since the Tommy gun in 20s. Same with foregrips.
Military style weapons have always been available, and in the past actual military weapons were available until the 84 laws.
But thank god we banned silencers and braces. That was at least 50,000 lives saved a year.
Are you trying to prove my point?Interesting. Let's compare in order the states with the lowest rate of gun ownership to homicide rates.
1. Hawaii 35th in homicide
2. NJ 30th in homicide
3. Mass 41st in homicide
4. RI 49th in homicide
5. NY 34th in homicide
6. Connecticut 37th in homicide
7. Maryland 3rd in homicide
8. Illinois 10th in homicide.
It's almost as if once again, there's no correlation.
HawaiNJRINYConneticutMarylandIllinois
Wyoming Murder/Homicide Rate 1979-2018
Edit: Accidently skipped Massachusetts
Abortion = right (despite never being mentioned and murder being morally wrong on all counts)
Firearms = not a right (despite the words "shall not be infringed" explicitly written)
We've got a culture problem, not a gun problem. And some cultures are much worse about it than others.
Can't it be both.
Banning Assault Rifles
Herschel Walker just gave a rambling speech, with a line about "taking your rights away." I always supported Second Amendment, and I still do. I know all of the arguments for it, and I've made them in the past. I still think everything I said was reasonable and right, except for one thing. When it got a lot of children killed, it stopped being right.
So don't talk to me about taking away your rights or "the security of a free state." High capacity, semi-automatic, high powered rifles on the market do not make us more secure. Obviously, they make us less secure. If you do not believe me, ask parents of those dead children. Ask the children who survived. Ask any sensible person. Do I think police should knock on your door and take away your rifle? No, and I want to quash talk of any proposed legislation to that effect, as quickly as possible. I believe that owning high capacity magazines, i.e. over seventeen, should be illegal. But I do not think that possession of the rifles themselves should become a crime. We need to stop people who want to commit mass murder from walking out of a gun store with one of those guns, and the only way to do that is to ban their manufacture and sale. That is what I support doing.
Look-it, I've owned a few semi-automatic long guns. I enjoyed shooting them and learning about them. I used to carry an M-16 rifle as a soldier and thought I had the right to own a high powered, semi-auto rifle if I wanted as a civilian. No, I don't. I have no right to weapons of war when they are the guns of choice to commit mass murders one after the other. Will the murders continue after people are no longer able to walk out of guns stores with assault rifles? Yes, but the murders will not be nearly as bad, and police will be able to respond more quickly and effectively.
I want gun owners to understand that banning the sale of assault rifles is not the end of their gun rights, not the end of our country, and not the end of the world. I imposed a self-ban, and I'm doing just fine. I do not need one, and neither do you. I do not want one, and I don't think you should.
You see? Absolute dreamworld.Where does the constitution state abortion is a right?
You see? Absolute dreamworld.
I have been thinking about how these people live in an alternate reality the last couple of days. It's this actual mental deficiency, or insanity, or whatever you want to call it that's led leftists to not once but twice approach my wife in public while I have been with her to remind her about how much privilege I have and that she ought to be careful.
Like hog said, they live on talking points. These leftist racists did it purely based on skin tone and because the TV and Twitter told them to, despite the fact that I grew up firmly middle class and my wife comes from a family that founded one of Peru's biggest petroleum transporters and two of Lima's largest luxury apartment developers, her dad is a retired multi-millionaire with his name on a sports club, and the houses people in her family own are routinely used in Peruvian TV and movies.