and i'll add, we are where we are wrt guns in this country in large part to those law abiding firearms owners going along with/sitting idly by and/or saying there's no problem with the massive expansion of firearms in the past few decades.
We are supposed to keep in mind delicate sensitivities when discussing reducing gun violenceif they are that sensitive to where that would make them walk away, they weren’t very open minded to begin with.
Again, you make sense. I don’t mean to bog down on what an assault rifleThey need to start by tossing out the definition of assault weapon, which obsessed on things like pistol grips and forward stocks, all which were trying to ban something which looked like an AR-15. All the manufacturers did was just design around all the little cosmetic points they came up with. That's the reason a new law shouldn't even have the term in it. It just needs to be all semi-automatic long guns. Yes, hunters will gripe. However, semis are for poor shots, anyway. You can even just have it apply to new gun purchases, since that's where most of the incidents occur. Anything would help...
In my opinion gun enthusiasts have allowed their hobby to be high jacked by gun manufacturers and people with an obsessive need to own whatever weapon they might want.and i'll add, we are where we are wrt guns in this country in large part to those law abiding firearms owners going along with/sitting idly by and/or saying there's no problem with the massive expansion of firearms in the past few decades.
There are 4x as many people stabbed to death with knives every year than the total number of people killed with rifles.I know any rational person will admit we have an extreme problem with gun violence here…those that draw the line against any more regulation at all are the ignorant ones in my opinion.
That's why a Mini-14 wasn't in the ban (and maybe because Ruger's Senator was John McCain also)They need to start by tossing out the definition of assault weapon, which obsessed on things like pistol grips and forward stocks, all which were trying to ban something which looked like an AR-15.
Maybe not. A good percentage of gun deaths are reported as "Firearms, type not stated"There are 4x as many people stabbed to death with knives every year than the total number of people killed with rifles.
You can download their database as a csv file hereData for context:
A 2014 study conducted by Dr. James Fox of 142 shootings found that 88 (62%) were committed with handguns of all types; 68 (48%) with semi-automatic handguns, 20 (14%) with revolvers, 35 (25%) with semi-automatic rifles, and 19 (13%) with shotguns. The study was conducted using the Mother Jones database of mass shootings from 1982 to 2018. High capacity magazines were used in approximately half of mass shootings. Semi-automatic rifles have been used in six of the ten deadliest mass shooting events.
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The Simple Facts About Mass Shootings Aren't Simple at All
The first step in stopping future mass shootings is figuring out what we know and working from there. Unfortunately, the real first step is getting rid of a bunch of stuff we "know" that turns out to be wrong.psmag.com
These numbers show that it's not easy at all. Again, I'm not against restrictions if they will make a difference, but we also need discussions about 'red-flag' laws and their implementation.
Shooting up a hospital. Good grief. I wonder how long it will be before somebody shoots up a funeral.![]()
At least 3 people were killed in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital campus shooting, police say
At least three people were killed in a hospital campus shooting on Wednesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said.www.cnn.com
Well, anyone trying to clean a loaded gun is obviously not gun-owner material...Incidental story a little off topic…
I had a good friend /business associate who was a confirmed conservative and with me being liberal we disagreed and bickered but we had a close friendship for 30 years, until he recently passed. He was about 15 years older than me, much of our business was done over the phone since he lived in another town.
One day he told me he had bought his first handgun for self defense. He lived in a nice neighborhood in Birmingham and did not travel to dangerous areas. I told him it was more likely he would wind up regretting the purchase rather than the opposite.
Maybe six months later he sent me an email or text, I don’t remember which, and told me he wasn’t up to using the phone. When I pressed him for a better explanation he finally told me he had been cleaning his gun in a bathroom that was tiled. He accidentally pulled the trigger and the report was so loud in the closed room it ruptured both eardrums.
I agree. Even I knew that.Well, anyone trying to clean a loaded gun is obviously not gun-owner material...
Technically the military defines the M14, M21, M9, and M590 as “assault weapons”. All 3 have a civilian equivalent.You need to go back and look at how they tried to define "assault weapon."
What’s crazy is that the Virginia Tech shooting is still the deadliest school shooting… the weapon of choice was 2 pistols. Columbine was shotguns and machine pistols.There are 4x as many people stabbed to death with knives every year than the total number of people killed with rifles.
Why the focus on rifles when handguns kill ~100x as many people as rifles annually?
I'm asking rationally here. I'm fine giving up my AR-pattern rifles if that's what we as a country decide. But really, we have a gun violence problem in this country and you're ignoring the elephant in the room.
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