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When a crazy decides to go on a rampage, and kill as many as they can do they chose bolt action, lever, or pump gun? No, they chose an assault weapon, with a fast reloadable magazine. Since Columbine we have seen multiple mass murders. The ones that have the highest kill rates are done with AR type weapons. Requiring a special license to own one of these would help considerably in keeping the assault weapons out of the hands of the crazies. However, you absolutists will create a situation where we have gun control laws that affect even the weapons I have. It is you, and those like you are a danger to my right to own a weapon.
FOR ONE THING:
a). You don't even know what an assault weapon is. Once and for all they aren't semi-automatics.
b). Experts have shown that school shootings would have been MORE effective with a scattergun (pump shotgun).
c). That is BS that AR's caused the highest kill rates.
d). The idea that a "special license" will be any more effective than existing laws is just a myth of the Left that would only lead to making such guns increasingly unavailable and impossible to get and we ain't falling for it.
So long as you have such a LAX school program in designing reasonable fail-safes for bringing METER-LONG hardware into a school undetected, such LAX attention to why kids want to kill their students and PS teachers in the first place (what is going on there?), such LAX FBI response that they ignored Cruz with a virtual 4th of July Red Alarm flashing over his head warning them of danger, such LAXNESS as a police force that sits outside scratching their ass while children are butchered
Police reports: Deputies knew where Parkland shooter was -- and hid
and such paralyzing fear of guns now that have eliminated all gun safety, use and training from schools to properly train, teach and discipline kids in the role and presence of firearms in their lives as we used to have,
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it is an absolute waste of time thinking that anything like raising the age to purchase some places or issuing a special license is going to have any real, substantive effect on curbing shootings and killings at the ROOT of what causes them!
You don't seem to get it. Everyone knows that there are more people per year killed with non semi automatic weapons. There is no doubt about that. What people are sick of are people getting their hands on AR-15's & other type weapons to committ mass murder that makes the HEADLINE NEWS.
You can blame this on Republicans. Since 2010 (when they took over the house) there have been 9 mass murders and they have done NOTHING to keep these weapons out of the wrong hands.
Aurora theatre shooting, they did NOTHING. Virginia Tech, they did NOTHING. Sandy Hook, they did NOTHING. San Bernardino, California, they dId NOTHING, Orlando, Florida they did NOTHING, Las Vegas, Nevada, they did NOTHING, Sutherland Springs, Texas, they did NOTHING, and Parkland, Florida, they did NOTHING.
US mass shootings, 1982-2018: Data from Mother Jones’ investigation
They didn't even ban the bump stock after Las Vegas.
What Republicans did do.
1. Republicans took off the mental health requirements that Obama initated after Sandy Hook as soon as Trump walked into the Oval office.
Trump repeals an Obama regulation keeping guns from people with certain mental health conditions
2. When Obama asked Republicans to put people who were no fly lists and terrorist watch lists, Republicans said NO to that. Shortly thereafter a terrorist who was on an FBI watch list was able to walk into a gun store load up and killed 49 people in Orlando, Florida.
Obama: It's 'insane' that people on the 'no-fly' list can buy guns - CNNPolitics
The reason Republicans haven't done anything is because they're trying to protect their campaign cash cow the NRA.
'Thoughts and prayers' — and fistfuls of NRA money: Why America can't control gunsThe gun rights organization spent a stupendous $54.4 million in the 2016 election cycle, almost all of it in "independent expenditures," meaning spending for or against a candidate but not a direct contribution to a campaign. The money went almost entirely to Republicans to a degree that almost looks like a misprint (but isn't): Of independent expenditures totaling $52.6 million, Democrats received $265. Yes, that's 265 dollars.
So it's coming. People are pissed and once Democrats are sworn in as majority leaders on January 20, 2019--very soon they will put a ban on semi automatic weapons in this country. If you wait, you'll have to hope for an invasion to use it again, or you can trade it in on a gun now that you will be able to use.
1. Republicans took off the mental health requirements that Obama initated after Sandy Hook as soon as Trump walked into the Oval office.
That mental health requirement allowed desk jockeys at the IRS to determine a persons mental health based solely on them not being able to handle their own finances.
Virginia Tech, they did NOTHING.
Virginia Tech shooter used two handguns, and racked up 32 kills.
Deadlier than most shootings by an 'assault' weapon
Anyone who is receiving social security disability for mental disorders has already run the guantlet of mental health professionals. You're not going to get a disability check because you can't balance your check book--