Lysistrata
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Liberals, moderates, and progressives who own guns probably will vote for the Democrat of their choice. Most likely they do not own, or defend owning the kind of useless military weaponry that the 2A radical fanatics champion. Not all gun owners are goobers prancing around in military fatigues brandishing rapid-fire, bullet-spraying weaponry while yelling about some nameless "them," of whom they seem to be very, very afraid, as if screaming hordes of "them" are going to invade Gooberville, USA. Many gun owners have common sense.
There are no military weaponry sold in the US to the public, and has not been since around 1935.
The military uses full auto, and all civilian weapons sold are single shot.
They are no more rapid-fire, bullet spraying than they were back in the Civil War, with Spencers, Sharps, and revolvers.
Single shot.
You pull the trigger on an AR, and you get a single shot.
Common sense should tell anyone that in a democracy, it is the general population that should be trusted with the best weapons, not the mercenary police or military. We already know the police are murdering Blacks and the military lied to us and murdered half a million innocent Iraqis.
Disagree. Whatever you want to call these weapons, we have seen the carnage that these weapons can cause at the hands of the "general public" and we have seen the blatant stupidity of the people who carry them. We have seen the proliferation of these white gangs that hide out in the woods playing soldier. There is no need for the "general public" to possess this kind of fire-power.
Any household need for a gun can be satisfied by a pistol, rifle, or shotgun, all of which we had growing up, kept under lock and key and transported in locked leather cases, with strict instructions never to point them at any other living thing unless we actually were in bonafide danger. But I once shot at a large spider on the back of a garage in Castroville, TX, with my aunt's pistol. I missed.
Yes, we have seen African-Americans being murdered by police, but I'm not that sure that arming all African-Americans with high-powered weaponry is the answer. As for killing people in foreign countries, I don't know how we can stop it. Our foreign policy has been screwed up for my entire life, at least. Who else could come up with a slogan like "kill a commie for Christ" or put bible verses on bullets?
You are misinformed.
These so called assault weapons are no more rapid fire, high capacity, or powerful than most weapons were by 1870 or so.
They are single shot.
The solution to abusive police is to not have a police state, and to defend yourself instead of falsely believing police can or will defend you. There is no legal basis for police, and they did not exist for the first 100 years or so of this country.
The solution to abusive military is to do what the founders wanted, and that is to have citizens soldiers instead of paid mercenaries.
If you look at mass shootings, like at schools, they are almost all suicides, so then clearly it is a mental health issue, and not a criminal justice problem. Reagan shut down all the mental health facilities that could identify and help prevent these tragedies. Gun control can not. For there is no minor gun control penalty you can impose that is going to prevent a person bent on murder and suicide. They are not going to hesitate to obtain the firearms illegally. All you do then with gun control, is disarm the honest people, who are the ones we should want to be armed.
If you really look at what those who support gun control are talking about, it actually does boil down to every single pistol, rifle, or shotgun.
They do not want the general public to have any recourse when the fossil fuels start to run out, and the 1% are not willing to accept the same slice of a shrinking pie. So far it has only been Blacks, immigrants, and those in other countries that have been abused. But all but the 1% will eventually be targeted.
Are you saying that all of these weapons are single shot? How do so many get killed in one minute if they are single shot? Or do you just mean that one squeeze of the trigger will fire off many more than one bullet or that it's one squeeze and hold it down and many bullets will be fired?