Can future mass shootings be prevented? This is not a political question (Page 3): It means a ban on semi auto firearms would do little!

Lonewolf

son of witless wrote:

????? What does that have to do with the price of tea in China ?

It means a ban on semi auto firearms would do little!

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

factnotfiction wrote:

After every mass shooting, the same handwringing, lamenting, and finger pointing begin.

I personally don't think that future mass shootings can be prevented, any more than minor crime can be stopped.

But there are some deep thinking and well intentioned members who may have other ideas.

But please, be realistic, and keep in mind the freedoms and liberties everyone in this country has UNTIL they commit a crime.

In any society, free or otherwise, there will be risks. It must be remembered that citizen firearms ownership is an ultimate check on a government that has grown abusive of its power.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

crazylibertarian wrote:

In any society, free or otherwise, there will be risks. It must be remembered that citizen firearms ownership is an ultimate check on a government that has grown abusive of its power.

They don't get that. They are all government all the time.

sabath

Almost all of the shooters have 1 thing in common, they were all on prozak,riddlin, or zolon perscription DRUGS! and big farma knows this.

ImLogicallyRight

PeterS wrote:

So you are equating guns to addictive drugs? Interesting comparison and you do act like people who are addicted.

How's this for a solution, a ten thousand dollar fine per semi-automatic weapon you are caught with. Catch you again and the fine will be twenty thousand dollars and three years in prison.

This won't eliminate semi-auto's but it will make them so cost-prohibitive and dangerous to keep that their sale will be but a trickle.

Sometimes, okay, rarely, you at least don't fall into the worst of the l*****ts and try to use some logic. Even though you are usually wrong or misguided. Today is not that day.

son of witless

Lonewolf wrote:

It means a ban on semi auto firearms would do little!

So then a ban would have to include more weapons to be effective ? Kind of like what Australia did ? They did not stop with assault guns. That is one of the reasons gun rights advocates will not budge.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

PeterS wrote:

We have mass shooting in the hundreds every year--so many that only the worst one make the news. Yes, bad people do bad things but it's ridiculous to hand them the instruments in which to make those bad things worse.

Since 1982, 950 people have been k**led in mass shootings in the US, another thousand or so wounded.

These are the numbers for random mass shootings that do not include such crimes as murders within a family or k*****gs that target specific individuals such as a disgruntled employee taking out former bosses and fellow employees.

The average number of victims in random mass shootings over the past 37 years is 25 people per year.

The slaughter is unprecedented, man, it's an epidemic of gun violence with no end in sight. Gotta get those damned semi-automatic weapons of war off the street in spite of the fact that these evil black rifles are the weapon of choice in around 2% of all random mass shootings. I reckon it is time to put another one of those Clinton style AWBs in place that proved totally ineffective in reducing gun crimes.

Funny thing though, gun crimes, including mass shootings, have declined 49% since they peaked in 1993.

What's an American gunslinger to do?

Rose42

PeterS wrote:

Eliminate all semiautomatic weapons. It won't end mass shooting but they will be so few it will seem like it...

Well there’s an anti American idea. Nevermind that more lives are saved with a gun than lost in mass shootings.

Rose42

Factnotfiction to address your question I don’t think they can be prevented. Not because of access to guns but because someone who is determined to k**l people is going to find a way. If there were no guns available there are other means. I once saw a video of a man with a knife who stabbed 6 officers in under 30 seconds. I think 5 died. Other countries have had mass k*****gs with knives.

Social media doesn’t help. It feeds wh**ever madness aome people have inside them.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Rose42 wrote:

Factnotfiction to address your question I don’t think they can be prevented. Not because of access to guns but because someone who is determined to k**l people is going to find a way. If there were no guns available there are other means. I once saw a video of a man with a knife who stabbed 6 officers in under 30 seconds. I think 5 died. Other countries have had mass k*****gs with knives.

Social media doesn’t help. It feeds wh**ever madness aome people have inside them.

Too true, two immigrants in Germany pushed people off the train platform and onto the train tracks recently, a boy and a mom and her baby. Only the mom survived. Some sick people in this world. Satan is working overtime as his time runs out.

Seth

Lonewolf wrote:

A good man with a bolt action rifle could have k**led far more then the Vegas shooter

Are you being facetious?

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

factnotfiction wrote:

After every mass shooting, the same handwringing, lamenting, and finger pointing begin.

I personally don't think that future mass shootings can be prevented, any more than minor crime can be stopped.

But there are some deep thinking and well intentioned members who may have other ideas.

But please, be realistic, and keep in mind the freedoms and liberties everyone in this country has UNTIL they commit a crime.

You're looking through the wrong end of the telescope. The question that must be answered honestly is what happened in America that no longer allowed all human life to remain sacred?

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

factnotfiction wrote:

After every mass shooting, the same handwringing, lamenting, and finger pointing begin.

I personally don't think that future mass shootings can be prevented, any more than minor crime can be stopped.

But there are some deep thinking and well intentioned members who may have other ideas.

But please, be realistic, and keep in mind the freedoms and liberties everyone in this country has UNTIL they commit a crime.

If I'm correct, no they can't be stopped completely. They can be put on 'pause' so to speak if many more carried. That way a bad guy wants to shoot someplace up, he may get one or two rounds off before HE IS K**LED y a good guy with another gun, sound like a deterrent? Actually, I think you should be asking Soros because just like at Parkland I think he's the puppetmaster.

Seth

padremike wrote:

You're looking through the wrong end of the telescope. The question that must be answered honestly is what happened in America that no longer allowed all human life to remain sacred?

The Democrats can deny it all they wish, but none of this s*** started happening until they'd ripped all mention of G-d out of the schools, declared war on Judeo-Christianity and begun promoting immoral and/or perverse conduct through legislation, movies & TV and, gradually, in the classroom, slowly easing the role of raising children out of the hands of parents and into the clutches of the political left.

roy

Gatsby wrote:

While you're at it, why don't you "Eliminate" illegal drugs too?

You cant eliminate drugs because the potilicans from both sides are filling their pockets full of drug money