Luddly Neddite
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Within my lifetime the access to semi and fully automatic weaponry, the "Saturday Night Special" cheap handgun, and high capacity magazines has eased to the point their availability is common. Also in that time, the phenomena of mass shootings has blossomed into an almost acceptable fact of modern life. Before access to weapons designed for soldiers and law enforcement, there were practically no mass gun shootings. After, we have what we are enduring today.Fortress Kindergarten. Armed guards in schools, on campuses, in theaters, all over. That's the answer? An assailant firing hundreds of rounds a minute seems to be the problem. And that seems to be the way to eliminate this modern and tragic phenomena of mass shootings. Such tragedies were impossible before weapons designed to kill as many human beings as possible were foisted upon the American public by gun manufacturers and their lackey lobbyists. There certainly were shootings, but not on a mass scale. The answer to the fire isn't pour on more gasoline. The answer is to stop access to weapons better held by a well regulated militia.
Connecticut has done it the gun grabbers way for years . Now Connecticut has proven gun control does not work. Now it's time to do it my way. Arm the citizens of the state.
Can you justify the absolute need for high capacity weapons? The need for semi or fully automatic firing actions? These weapons are responsible fro the modern phenomenon of mass murder by gunfire. Is there really a reason more necessary than the lives of the victims to have such weapons in the hands of ordinary citizens and not well regulated militias?
Such weapons have no place in society. If rational heads prevail, the adolescents who think these weapons are cool would be schooled in the tragic consequence of the reality of such weapons, not the virtual video game prurient pleasure of their use. Such weapons belong in well regulated militia, not on the streets. Once confiscated, I suggest they be melted down and rendered into manhole covers to cap the putrid sewer of death they have wrought.
You are absolutely correct and you have stated it very well.