saltwind 78 wrote:
The big question is how can we stop the mass murder of children and other innocents? To me, the answer is clear. We must eliminate the means by which these maniacs commit these terrible crimes. We have to prevent them from obtaining semi automatic military style assault weapons and the high capacity magazines, Will it completely stop these random acts of mass murder? Of course not, but they will prevent many of them, and reduce the number of people k**led. We have to use common sense. Outlaw the sale of these instruments of war for civilian use. Make sure that people convicted of felonies, and those that have character disorders or other serious mental diseases can not legally buy any firearms. If we do these two things, we can save lots of lives.
I have four grandchildren, and I can think of no greater tragedy than losing one of them in such a senseless attack. I would rather see the Second Amendment repealed all together. I am a gun owner myself. I own it for the protection of my family. All that is needed for protecting your home and or family is a pistol or even better, a shotgun.
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I am way past sick and tired of hearing the l*****t meme that the AR15 is a "military style assault weapon" and that high capacity magazines make this semi-auto rifle the most lethal gun on earth.
You'd think this medium power, medium range sporting rifle was a WMD one notch below a 5 kiloton tactical nuke.
The fact is, the military issue M16 was developed based on the AR platform. IOW, you could say the military M16 is a "civilian style" rifle redesigned for select fire - semi-auto, burst fire and full auto.
Put simply, the AR15 was never designed and manufactured for military use.
The AR 15 cannot fire bullets any faster than any other semi-auto firearm.
Ask a soldier, Marine, or navy SEAL to take an AR15 into combat and he'd tell you to shove it up your ass.
According to well researched statistics, over 95% of all gun related crimes, including mass shootings, are committed with hand guns.
I am also way past sick and tired of hearing the l*****t insanity about repealing the 2nd Amendment.
If you damned fools succeed in doing that, the violence we are witnessing today is gonna look like a picnic in the park.
Here is a list of all adults and children k**led in school shootings since Columbine.
Over the past 23 years, 169 people have been k**led in school shootings.
That is an average of 7 victims per year.
82 of the victims were under 15 years of age.
Since 1982 - 40 years - 1363 people - men, women and children - have been k**led in mass shootings (includes schools).
That is an average of 34 victims per year.
Since January 1, 2022, 243 people of all ages have been murdered in Chicago.
That is an average of 48 victims per month.
Since 1973 - 49 years - 63.8 million unborn children were k**led in the mother's womb.
That is an average of 12 million victims per year, or 3522 per day.
According to CDC stats, in the US, the number of people dying of drug overdoses has climbed to over 100,000 per year.
Violent crimes have reached unprecedented numbers in the last two years.
Crime data from Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington, D.C.,
reveals violent crimes have increased anywhere from nearly 5% to up to 40% compared to the same time frame in 2021.
New York City has so far seen the largest increase in violent crimes, with a 40.6% increase compared to 2021. The city has recorded 43,244 violent crime incidents since May 15, compared to 2021’s 30,754 recorded during the same timeframe.
Why have mass shootings and violent crime in general been climbing rapidly since the summer r**ts and C***d lock downs in 2020?