“Also, there is no way that the gun was a part of this crime! Guns don’t kill people. Only the mentally unstable people we goad into mass shootings with the weapons and ammo we sell them kill people.”
*Weapons, ammo, and an ideology built on hatred.
Most mass shooters are right-wing nutjobs.
“extremists”
“lone wolves”
“few rotten apples”
To play devil’s advocate (and weather the downvotes for doing so), alcohol doesn’t drive drunk, and most people who use it do so responsibly.
If a bunch of peeps who don’t drink wanted to stop drunk driving, they would see the best solution as just banning alcohol. Its a simple solution and makes sense. Nations like saudi arabia have banned alcohol and have significantly less drunk driving incidents. It wouldnt make sense to them why so many people would resist such a simple and proven solution. If they won’t ban it all then atleast ban the liquor, etc.
Meanwhile the people who drink responsibly wouldnt want to have to give up drinking just because a few idiots drive drunk. They would see the best solution as finding ways to stop people from choosing (or being able) to drive drunk, while still allowing themselves to use it responsibly, but that is a much harder thing to do.
Maybe we should have licensing and registration requirements for guns like we do cars… nobody on the “guns aren’t the problem” side of the argument is ok with anything like that either.
Yeah i feel like most people would be down with that. Same with taking guns away from domestic abusers. John Stewart (the problem with john stewart) had a great episode on gun control.
Those convicted of domestic violence are already federally barred from firearms ownership.
*except in Vermont where they allow it for some reason, and the federal govt lets the state get away with that. Your guess is as good as mine.
“Those convicted of domestic violence are already federally barred from firearms ownership.”
But don’t cops walk around with guns all day?
HA!
Also to actually answer: “Yes but we all know laws don’t apply to them.”
Yes, we got it passed, now we just need to enforce it.
I do agree, “eat the gun control we have at home before I buy you new cereal” I say.
Lol
There is no license, class, physical or psychological examination, registration, age requirement, background check, or permit required to purchase a car.
Only to take it out in public
There are licences, classes, examinations, registration, age requirements and permits required to actually use the car though.
Also, cars have a viable purpose beyond being a weapon. Why are we trying to equate something whose main purpose is to transport but can be used as a weapon with something whose main purpose is to end life? If an object’s sole or main purpose is to cause physical harm, it should obviously be regulated more heavily than objects whose main purpose is not to harm, but can be used as a weapon in certain circumstances.
To use the car on publicly-owned roads.
I’m just clarifying why “treat them like cars” is a terrible argument.
I am on that side of the argument and im fully in favor of registration requirements, in fact I think anyone who wants to own a gun should have to undergo regular psychological, mental, and physical health evaluations as well as required to take a gun safety course. Not that I speak for everyone of course but I also dont think Im a minority in this situation.
I have an issue with psych evals: Ableism. Just because someone is depressed, has PTSD, has ADHD, whatever, doesn’t mean they don’t deserve the right to defend themselves. Furthermore it is currently federal law that if you are IVC’d under judge’s orders (which does require proof, but it is imprisonment short term and removal of rights for life, there should be proof), you now get flagged in NICs and can’t legally buy one, so at least we do have an acceptible version of this already.
Also I’d like to add, it would be a good .2sec before republicans add trans people to the no gun list because “41% suicide yadda yadda” and the democrat party will pass it because “gun bad.” It’ll get snuck in like they always do, “oh you want psych evals, ‘no trans’ or no deal.” Then they’ll have to choose between trans rights and the right to own the thing that can defend those rights from would be right wing attackers.
It is too easily weaponized against people already too stignatized, I don’t like it personally.
The counter argument to that is that it negatively impacts lower class people who are unable to take time off work to go do those things, thus disproportionately hindering lower class and minority rights.
And the counter argument to that is that there should be enough safety nets in place to allow all people to be able to take time off work as needed.
That would have people really confused. “We have to raise minimum wage to allow everyone the right to bear arms”
So if working conditions improve, it would be appropriate to implement stricter voter ID laws?
Yes… but since the purpose of those laws is only to suppress turnout amongst the poor, I don’t think anyone would be trying to pass them if being poor didn’t make voting harder…the 2nd group most impacted are the elderly and they tend to vote for folks that want to suppress the poor so there’s even less reason to pass them at that point.
Suppress turnout amongst the poor [and consequently certain demographics that are disproportionately poor]. Take a look at the history of gun control and you’ll see a familiar pattern to voter suppression.
Of course, it’s illegal to buy alcohol under 21, and it’s illegal for someone to sell it to you if you’re obviously impaired. We have some restrictions about it.
It’s illegal to buy guns under 18 and illegal to buy pistols under 21. And there’s the background check with every (in store) purchase, So there’s some restrictions
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In the US (which I’m assuming you’re referring to, since the meme mentions the GOP), There is absolutely not a background check performed for every firearm purchase. That’s one of many restrictions people reasonably want placed on guns. Only 17 states have a universal requirement for gun sales. The federal law “requiring” background checks only applies to federally licensed sales. Private sales, gun shows, etc. allow for sale of guns with no background check, and often bypass age restrictions as well.
Good point.
And dry counties exist. I don’t know of many gunless counties.
What he said. Also it is illegal to private sale one to someone that you have a reasonable suspicion may be a prohibited purchaser. Even better than someone who is “obviously” a prohibited purchaser.
I like your analogy. I’m just trying to refactor based on the NotJustBikes mindset of a well-developed city that has little to no requirement for driving a powered vehicle.
“Drunk person riding their bicycle into the canal and drowning” doesn’t quite have the same impact.
That said, the Venn diagram of countries with cities designed primarily around car usage vs the countries with a serious gun abuse problem seems to intersect with just one country. So your analogy still stands.
Lol interesting take on it. Big fan of not just bikes, climate town as well.
Worst part about this shitty argument is that if they believe it’s a mental health issue then why are they so adamant about slashing spending for mental health programs and treatment 🤔
Pfft these kids don’t even know what kind of guns they’re being killed with…
-conservatives
Also, it’s worth noting that he would be just as dangerous with a knife or a car or a bow.
-also conservatives
They like saying “a bomb” these days. And then I like asking them which country with gun control has daily bombings.
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Syria…
“Would you believe, a boy scout with a pea-shooter?” - Maxwell Smart
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My favorite from them is “define assault weapon.” My definition is “who the fuck cares? Let’s regulate all guns.”
I feel like whoever first started bringing the term “assault weapon” to gun debates really killed the argument.
Admittedly, the only useful argument I’ve ever heard on the idea of grouping them has been the thought that they are purchased for their popularity and “coolness”, eg based on their appearance in some movie or video game, not specifically for their practical use of any civil kind. And, people who buy guns with no practical purpose in mind for them (as opposed to say, a person holding a restraining order expecting to defend themself) are more likely to end up letting them into an unsafe situation (by theft, jadedness, or pure accidents)
Still - not a strong argument, and I’d prefer it if we focused on how guns are used, not how black and tacticool they are.
I feel like whoever first started bringing the term “assault weapon” to gun debates really killed the argument
That would be the pro gun control side. They wanted to conflate assault rifles as in the actual military rifles, and the downgraded civilian semi-auto rifles. The distinction is important, look up the process it takes to purchase a machine gun in the US sometimes. They deliberately want a culture of ignorance around guns, because the goal is total disarmament, not effective regulation.
You can see the result in this thread and others. People will claim that someone can just walk into a Walmart and buy a machine gun. Politicians talk about banning “fully semi auto assault weapons”. The OP image and plenty of comments here mock the idea that someone should expect a base amount of knowledge in the subject before proposing new laws. Someone trying to define proposed regulation or correct a mistaken assumption about current laws is branded an “Ammosexual”.
I’d kindly ask you not to put words in my mouth. I am pro gun control. I am not pro total disarmament - logically, such a thing isn’t even at all practical, especially because it isn’t achieved in any of the countries we use for comparisons about “what works”.
People are constantly misinformed about tons of issues across the world, including journalists. Take your blame to them. Don’t use it as an illogical thread to make a different point.
What part of my reply made you think that I was talking about you in particular?
All guns after 1899 are regulated chief. How about we fix our society instead of trying to collect millions and millions of lawfully owned firearms.
Here we can start with
Singler payer healthcare
Ending the war on drugs
Ending for profit prisons
Paying teachers more
Making a living wage law
Building more schools and funding under funded schools in inner cities where 95% of the violence happens
Creating safety nets for all kids under 18, so they don’t have to worry about where their next meal is coming from or where they’re going to sleep.
While we’re at it, let’s get RCV and ban insider trading for Congress thrown in as well.
All guns after 1899 are regulated chief.
So no more mass shooting? Thanks, chief.
You’re the one who acts like more laws will stop these shootings. They’re not even enforcing the ones on the books…at the end of the day, you either tell the truth and have the military go door to door and round up the firearms, causing a civil war or you put in more feel good laws about firearms you think look scary.
Or you do a gun buyback program like Australia did. Then make firearms illegal without a license and a reason.
Then, like all other first world countries, you literally see murder plummeting.
Australia has around 1mil firearms in private hands…had a 60% turn in rate, and never had the murder rate we do anyways. If 60% of the USA turned in the firearms, you’d be left with over 100 million still out there.
It’s going to take 20-40 years to get into a comparable state to other first world countries. The difference is whether we start now or in 30 years. If we start in 30 years, it will take 50-70 years.
I don’t think a single one of the things you said would help curb gun violence or even school shootings at all. Your list is nice for everything else but how about addressing the glorification of guns and the shooters in the media? Maybe regulate the incitement of violence online and in the political discourse? How about blocking the radicalization of young men via dangerous conservative rhetoric online, eg. YouTube? Handle cases of bullying that go actively overlooked? Maybe intervene in child abuse and provide help for teenagers with poor mental health who feel ostracized? And the most important of all, block the easy access to these damn guns?
I bet someone better educated on this topic could come up with a better list. But my point is that you’re dying on this tired hill of “it’s not the guns” in this thread but you’re failing to hit the nail on the head on everything else while being condescending towards everyone else:
Because you’re not even interested in addressing the real issue (and fail to provide a reasonable, insightful solution) so long as nobody’s touching the damn guns. What you’re doing is akin to whataboutism. What the heck does insider trading in Congress have to do with anything?
I don’t think a single one of the things you said would help curb gun violence or even school shootings at all.
Most “school” shootings are drug and gang related in inner cities, with handguns. Rifles are very rarely used, hell, they’re very rarely used in murders in general. Most of our gun homicides are from gangs and drugs, not from random shootings. Ending the cycle of locking up drug users and keeping drugs illegal which is a major source of income for these gangs would start curbing the violence over night. Making sure kids have safety nets to go to and not gangs also would stop the flow of new members to gangs.
Your list is nice for everything else but how about addressing the glorification of guns and the shooters in the media?
How do you plan on doing that? You going to ban violence in movies and video games? Or ban rap/rock music? You going to ban the press from reporting on murders?
Maybe regulate the incitement of violence online and in the political discourse?
Uhh again how do you plan on doing this? You going to setup a great wall just like china has and enforce it via draconian police?
How about blocking the radicalization of young men via dangerous conservative rhetoric online, eg. YouTube?
Apparently you think only white christian male Republicans shoot people…
Handle cases of bullying that go actively overlooked?
Sure, I’m game for that, but I’d be covered with more funding so we have smaller classes…like I said above
Maybe intervene in child abuse and provide help for teenagers with poor mental health who feel ostracized?
Yea…I said that…safety nets for anyone under 18…
And the most important of all, block the easy access to these damn guns?
And how do you plan on doing that? Most guns used in crime are not purchased legally.
I bet someone better educated on this topic could come up with a better list. But my point is that you’re dying on this tired hill of “it’s not the guns” in this thread but you’re failing to hit the nail on the head on everything else while being condescending towards everyone else:
I’m being condescending because the mass majority of people who want gun control, have no clue about A) the current laws and B) what our gun violence actually comes from. You clearly have shown you don’t know in this very post.
Because you’re not even interested in addressing the real issue (and fail to provide a reasonable, insightful solution)
I mean I did provide solutions that would actually do something, or society is broken, removing a plastic rifle that scares you, isn’t going to solve it.
so long as nobody’s touching the damn guns.
Pandoras box was opened, and you’re not going to close it without causing a civil war. Taking rifles that make up a rounding error in the deaths each year is pants on head stupid. Because at the end of the day, you’re not wanting to stop the deaths, you’re wanting to get rid of something that scares you.
What you’re doing is akin to whataboutism. What the heck does insider trading in Congress have to do with anything?
I mean it’s not but ok…insider trading is where a lot of Congress gets their money, cut the flow means you cut their power and it means you’re less likely to have greedy fucks who aren’t in it to better society running the nation.
I think the one part I agree with is the rifles vs handguns debate. In spite of their prominence in mass shootings, I think the thing we need to regulate more is handguns, not rifles. They’re used for concealed carry - for bringing death to another person’s home. Shotguns and rifles are more than adequate for home defense or hunting, and they’re much less practical to steal or transport.
I think it was Australia that even restricted personal gun purchases to that category of weapon.
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Yep, no one wants to look at the root cause, they just want to use emotions vs facts these days.
Wait, what?!? Nuance? GTFO of my guns bad echo chamber with your actually achievable solutions that I would normally otherwise support wholeheartedly!
Because fix society hard, blame gunz instead.
It’s ironic because guns at the end of the day are a tool to enact the will of it’s user. Take the gun away, and you still have a problem to face.
All that guy is gonna do is find a gun illegally or something else to do what it is he is going to do. Mass shooters will steal box vans, people will go on knife stabbing sprees, police will become more oppressive as they have nothing to fear from the people anymore.
It’s funny that I tell people this all the time. I would say I lean more toward the left, but liberals think that if you aren’t 100% a liberal, you’re a conservative, and that’s why we will never experience the change we need to see in this country.
Always said, if the Dems ever want to control the gov. For a long time, just drop gun control and be in support of firearm rights. They’d wreck every election.
That’s because legally speaking, it is not a machine gun.
Disbarring effectiveness from the conversation (although bumpfire is hilariously innacurate compared to true fully automatic fire), bumpfire also requires a degree of skill to actually pull off, even with a bump stock, as you have to manipulate the firearm in a way that it actually can continuously fire, something that would be very difficult to do in a stressful situation.
Bumpstocks also make semiautomatic fire much more difficult.
I should clarify that I’m not defending bumpstocks, I’m just saying that banning bumpstocks was a farce, especially since you can still bumpfire without them due to the existence of physics.
You can bump fire any gun without a bump stock or a trigger mechanism, on a lot of guns it’s stupid easy and you can do it without experience. It doesn’t turn it into a “fully automatic machine gun”. Someone with barely any firearm experience can take any pistol or rifle and be shown how to bump fire within like a minute. It has nothing to do with accessories, although things like those can make it a little easier.
I’m a big advocate for better gun control, but what you’re implying is just dishonest, even if unintentionally.
Posting that kind of stuff makes you sound like you have no idea what you’re talking about (the way you worded it just sounds cringey) which makes people less inclined to be influenced by what you say, and hurts support of gun regulation by convincing witnesses that everybody who likes gun control is misinformed.
Then you’ll have no issue with banning bumpstocks then eh? And other mechanisms that move this from skill based to technology based?
No. Because the whole point of guns is to equalize people regardless of skill. Normal people can’t spend their lives training, terrorists can.
“Everyone can kill people regardless of skill” seems much worse than 'only highly skilled people can". None of these shooters ever “spent their life training”.
Skill means people with resources and able-bodied. If you want to further centralize lethal power in the hands of those people that is your choice.
If only it were my choice.
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Look man, I just want less gun violence in this country. And my solution is to ban guns. If you have a better idea I’m all ears.
Fix society…and get to the root cause of why people are violent towards each other
These aren’t actual solutions. Taking aways all guns is a concrete step. We need concrete steps from the gun loving crowd.
Lol good luck with that, you anti-gun crowds really want to start a civil war that you wouldn’t survive in.
It’s pretty easy to get guns in my country yet there’s still not much gun violence. Similarly a lot of the states with the most lax gun laws in the US have the least gun violence.
Can’t bump a single action six shooter. Sorry pal.
“I don’t care about guns deaths, just the guns that scare me the most”.
Implying that a revolver isn’t used in crime to kill people is hilariously misinformed ignorance. More people every year are killed by revolvers, than a plastic semi auto rifle.
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What are you on about? Care to put any other words in my mouth? There’s plenty of things you can say about me but literally nothing that you just said has any relevance to me at all. Thank you very much.
A lot of the comments written to him were hostile, he may of thought you were as well.
It’s not semantics. When legislation is being written, it has to be very specific. If you can’t even get the definition correct, how are you going to be expected to accurately write laws about it? It’s even worse when the general population is pressuring their representatives to write laws on something they also know nothing about. There is a very clear distinction between semi-automatic and automatic. To say otherwise, you are absolutely clueless or intentionally being dishonest.
No. We just don’t want people trying to ban things they don’t have even a basic understanding of. When someone says “ban high capacity clipazines” it tells us they don’t even know what they are talking about.
But it’s irrelevant, people just don’t want violent murderers to have the ability to fire large volumes of bullets at them first thing in the morning.
FFS, let us get a cup of coffee first!
If you really feel so strongly about it, you would educate yourselves the small amount required to even talk about what you’re trying to ban.
I would be for a ban of semi auto weapons period. Bolt action is more than good enough for hunting or target shooting, heck even home defence, a shotgun is pump action but still highly effective.
The number one reason that I own guns is to protect my circle from the government gone tyrannical.
You are gonna defend yourself against Abrams tanks, Apache helicopters and predator drones with a rifle?
Remember you live next to a gun owner, so when they’re blowing up his house, your shits getting wrecked as well.
Also Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan all would like a word with you.
Yeah, what are you going to defend yourself with? Thoughts and prayers?
Then how about in instances where it is unlikely for the vast majority of people in one of the most populated countries in the world to learn about something like guns and how they work, we just have a registry of firearms that are approved for use in the US. Manufacturers can form fill and submit new equipment to be on that list legalizing them to be sold to the public through authorized dealers and then we don’t ever have to worry about the broad sweeping bans on weapons that probably shouldn’t have been in the hands of the aforementioned underqualified, less than educated civilians. Especially in cases where those civilians may intend to do harm to other, less than educated civilians.
It should not be a requirement that I know how a weapon works to fear harm from that weapon. I should not have to know the difference between the pomel and the guard of a sword to be allowed to fear being cut apart by one. Telling people to educate themselves does nothing for your argument. All you are saying is “I’m smarter than you and you’re wrong.” And that’s just not helpful in cases where regardless of one’s education on the matter of guns, we still hold different views on which guns people should be allowed to carry.
I do not care if it’s a clip or a magazine or if it’s bump-fire or fully automatic or machine automatic. You know the intention of people’s words when they are concerned about these matters and want legal restrictions put in place. It should not be accessible to civilians to fire 10s of bullets a second.
Preventing mass shootings from happening is a matter of restricted and monitored access. There are hundreds of countries where gun violence is a non-issue. Why is it an issue here? How do we be more like countries where it is not an issue? What steps can we take to not fear for our lives? I don’t like having to look over my shoulder when I go out.
Seems you don’t understand the comment. You can fear all you like. But the uneducated should have no say in what should be banned.
< votes for anti-abortion politicians
It’s all just Kabuki. Doesn’t matter the side.
He forgot the thoughts and prayers, the best help they’ll ever offer.
Ooooh, I thought it was THOTS and prayers. That one still makes more sense though
Thots and players
Mmm tater tots
“By hiding from the guy and not letting him shoot you, you’re infringing on his 2nd amendment rights, so who’s the real monster here? Ok bye”
Haven’t we had many records of “good guys with a gun”
Who pull out their weapon and then either get shot by police who mistake them for the shooter or put it back because they can’t tell what’s going on in the chaos?
Well here’s some, 1 or 2 of which the police did indeed do that but tbh at least some other people were saved if not the defender. At least he actually did kinda die a hero even if the cops are stupid and trigger happy (what else is new?)
https://crimeresearch.org/2023/08/cases-where-armed-citizens-have-stopped-active-shooter-incidents/
some
That was a rather big “some” I thought.
There is an entire subreddit /r/dgu
Eh just let em keep moving the bar, makes em look silly.
“That never happens, show me ONE example”
“Here’s like 50”
“That isn’t enough, it still isn’t 100% of the time so somehow I’m right, and I’m going to ignore how the shooters target gun free zones to lessen the chance of said armed resistance so gun control actually lowers the rates of ‘good guys with guns,’ and don’t you DARE bring up the fact that Harvard estimated ‘a more realistic’ estimate than Kleck and Lott at 100,000 dgu/yr, which is still a raw 40,000 over our gun deaths and 88,000 over our intentional homicides /yr respectively, and that’s the low estimate. Gun defense bad, knife crime good, i know it doesn’t mean much when you’re getting vivisected but at least he gave us time to run away and leave you for dead!”
The percentage is incredibly small.
Out of nearly 560 mass shootings this year, we are looking at something ridiculous like less than 1% was a “good guy with a gun” that helped. And for some of those “good guy with a gun”, they also end up dead from police shooting at them.
In other words, you’re more likely to hope the shooter is struck by lightning.
This is why I never took the Republican Party seriously, even before the days when they came out as being domestic terrorists.
Anyone who is honestly more afraid of not having a gun than they are of not having a doctor, has the mindset of a 7-year-old who’s Daddy just let him watch Die Hard.
You must live in a nice neighborhood
Most of those “mass shootings” are gang violence, and when a shooter gets taken out by another shooter it’s just part of the violence.
The mass shootings where the point is a massacre have a slightly better rate of “good guys with guns,” but still admittedly not great.
It’s completely irrelevant though, the point of the right to bear arms is so people can join a radical militia and help put down slave revolts, conquer land from the Indians, and fight tyranny, in the order of importance to the Founding Fathers.
I doubt more than a tiny percentage of people who carry do so specifically to stop mass shootings
You don’t CCW to be some stupid fudd sheep dog. You carry so you have a force equalizer and so you can protect yourself and others around you…not to go hunting for someone shooting others.
No, you carry because you’re fearful and ignorant
The ivory tower you sit in is some mighty fine white privilege.
Just don’t mention assault rifle, you’ll trigger someone.
(I got one!)
Your cries for help are meaningless if you can’t tell the difference smh
Judging by her educational history and political present day, I’m guessing she’s not fond of being lectured or otherwise informed by anyone about anything.
They could call it a “fnorplgleek” for all I care.
Until they figure out how to prevent any and all fnorplgleeks from having the ability to injure, main, or kill another human being when the fnorplgleek operator wishes to harm you unlawfully, they can expend 100% of their thinkbox time figuring out how to do so. Like, pin their wetware CPU to working out a solution. Interconnect them Borg style.
If the response is “well no, not like that” then we recognize that it’s a compromise that continues to put victims in front of said fnorplgleek operators.
brb getting a “Down with fnorplgleeks” t-shirt made
are “fnorplgleeks” pencils? because what you described sounds like a problem with pencils.
So you wouldn’t care if the legislation was written to ban anything that has the potential to kill?
Guns, cars, knives, bleach, rope all could fall into that category. See how words have specific definitions and actually matter quite a bit? Especially when the law is concerned. Why do you think there’s different categories of homicide? Do you think manslaughter and 1st degree murder should carry the same penalty?
Only one is made to kill. All others have other uses
So large jacked up trucks have a use? Butterfly knives and swords have practical uses? What about cars with more than 200 hp? Not like you can do 120mph anywhere legally, so why have them? Or alcohol, more people are killed 10 fold via drunk drivers than all rifles combined… sounds like alcohol should go back to prohibition era and the gov. poisons it.
I take it you’re for walkable cities then?
Absolutely and mass transit. Trains should have been worked heavily into long distance travel in our country. Even though I’m a petrolhead, I still don’t understand why we neutered our mass transit and civilian walkable infrastructure…might have helped with our obesity epidemic.
Good to hear we can agree on that
Because knowing the names of things = knowing safety?
If it’s trying to kill me then that is kind of more important than it being called or not called the Assualt Rifle 15
I would be concerned for your knowledge of gun safety if you didn’t know this too. She’s a lunatic, but she has a point.
This is just bullshit GOP deflection whenever someone calls it what it is.The AR in AR-15 may stand for Armalite, but an AR-15 is still an assault rifle.
The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges.
And
…examples of intermediate cartridges are the 7.92×33mm Kurz, the 7.62×39mm and 5.56×45mm NATO.
The AR-15 doesn’t have selective fire.
You could argue that, but I could also argue that the majority of M16/AR-15 style rifles issued by the US military are semi-automatic just like civilian models. Why? Because semi-automatic fire is, by far, more accurate, efficient, and deadly than burst or automatic fire.
So whether you want to call it an assault rifle, a long rifle, or whatever, the one you buy at Bass Pro Shops is just as advanced and deadly as what our military carries. So asking for some common sense gun laws and improved mental healthcare before you can just walk into a store and walk out with what is functionally the exact same rifle the most powerful military in the world issues to its soldiers maybe isn’t too fucking much to ask. The number one cause of death for children in the US is fucking firearms. As a lifelong gun owner, stop pissing and moaning about how improved gun laws will ruin your hobby while fucking kindergartners are far more likely to die to a .223 than their family is to know when their next meal will be.
Select fire means there are multiple fire modes, therefore by definition they have to be burst or full auto capable. See what Boebert means?
Wtf, no she doesn’t?! I don’t need to know the details of how guns are named to see the effects they have. It’s like saying you can only criticize someone running over people with a car if you can name the manufacturer’s home country, completely absurd.
No, it’s like pushing for horse-drawn carriage control because people in cars are speeding, or like saying there’s a butter-knife loophole around sword bans.
It’s fucking important to know about the things you’re trying to legislate, and knowing that an AR-15 isn’t an assault rifle is such a basic bit of information.
It would be like banning hysterectomy as treatment for anyone who isn’t certifiably hysterical.
The AR in AR-15 may stand for Armalite, but an AR-15 is still an assault rifle.
The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges.
And
…examples of intermediate cartridges are the 7.92×33mm Kurz, the 7.62×39mm and 5.56×45mm NATO.
AR-15 is not selective fire. That means fully automatic, something that is already effectively banned in the USA.
Why does knowing what AR stands for mean you understand gun safety? Do they have a corporate model vocabulary lesson in gun safety classes?
It would indicate you have done passing research on what you are talking about. If people are messing up basic terminology I would be concerned they have a poor understanding of the subject. The same way Trump spoke about stuff with incorrect language showed his ignorance.
Why do you need to research the name of a specific gun to understand gun safety? How does not knowing what the initials of one single gun stand for show you have a poor understanding of the subject? Do you have to be familiar with every gun out there to understand gun safety? In that case, don’t let anyone buy a gun until they’ve used every model and knows each one intimately. Otherwise it won’t be safe.
It’s one of the most prolific gun platforms ever. It would be like trying to regulate trucks without knowing the F-150 is made by Ford. It shows ignorance of the subject, which isn’t what you want if you’re looking to express an opinion. It’s not that deep.
You are moving the goalposts. We weren’t talking about regulation. We were talking about gun safety.
The claim you made was this:
I would be concerned for your knowledge of gun safety if you didn’t know this too. She’s a lunatic, but she has a point.
Can you please explain to me how gun safety was taught before the AR-15 was invented despite the lack of this necessary component?
No you’re not. This entire post is about wanting to ban the AR-15. Aka regulate it. Stop trying to mask your intentions it doesn’t do you any favors. We all know what they are.
Replace that same logic with the idiots who want to control women’s healthcare… that’s why.
What abbreviation is it necessary to know to understand women’s healthcare?
It’s not about just the abbreviation, it’s the fact that you and a ton of others in here think the AR-15 is somehow more dangerous than any other semi auto rifle. When it’s not. The amount of people killed each year with all rifles combined, is 1/3rd the number of people killed with knives and 1/2 of those killed with feet/hands, which shows you’re not here for a solution to people dying, you’re here to ban something you have no clue about because the media and politicians tell you it’s scary.
it’s the fact that you and a ton of others in here think the AR-15 is somehow more dangerous than any other semi auto rifle.
Please provide evidence that I think that the AR-15 is more dangerous than any other semi automatic rifle.
Unless that was a lie, of course. I’m sure if it wasn’t a lie, you can prove that I think that.
That’s you’re starting point…you literally said regulate all guns…aka I want them all banned. And while you may have not said it specifically in this thread, you’re still wanting to regulate something you don’t understand.
The AR15 was designed to be the most effective general case weapon of war to be carried by soldiers. If it didn’t have measurable advantage over other rifles why did the US military adopt the M-16? Select fire is far from the only characteristic that contributes to the efficient lethality of that design.
They don’t use the AR-15 in the military… it’s still a plastic fucking semi automatic rifle …just like my wood ones that are semi auto…there is no difference. It’s like trying to ban a car because it’s got a spoiler and painted red…
“Well technically, the babies died because of gravity, not because I throw them out of the window.” -throws_babies_out_of_windows
Imagine agreeing with Boebert. Yikes
It’s called not being an ideological slave with a mind poisoned by partisan politics.
If Boebert said the Holocaust was bad would you disagree?
I would be surprised if she said that
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The GOP are a bunch of rinos who support the second amendment but.
They instantly support gun control the moment a group they don’t like gets interested in guns.
When have they supported gun control? I keep hearing them say things like “gays with guns don’t get bashed” and “firepower is empowering”.
Panthers
After the mass shooting by a “trans” shooter, they all started coming out of the woodwork to make transphobic anti gun talking points.
The only one I know is the mulford act signed in by then gov Reagan
The NRA overthrew their leadership that supported the Mulford Act and pivoted the organization into a pro-gun political machine.
They used to be bipartisan, even playing a large part in Bernie Sanders’s first state-wide win. Then they started taking Russian money and supported the Republican party unconditionally.
Just wait, when gays start forming armed militias like the proud boys, they’ll change up their rhetoric real quick.
The proud boys aren’t a gay militia?
They should call themselves Pride Boys.
Thots and Prayers!!! Ok!!!
They got the thots! Have you seen Lauren’s Boberts?
I know so many people who think they are helping by critiquing like this when they are not. And also expect a “thank you” for their destructive distraction. If there were a hell I hope they are the first to burn or freeze in it.
We need the linux neckbeard copypasta but for guns.
In this case I do think it’s a good response. Both sides have a boogeyman, but it’s time for The Final Nightmare. This time, Freddie’s dead. Or wait, maybe we want to avoid little Freddie being dead. My point is, many are intentionally talking at cross purposes, using loaded terms to invoke rage at their target rather than actually discuss what’s in their crosshairs. Someone needs to smack their hands with a ruler until they grow up.
While we do need a better way to limit the violence people commit with firearms, I have no better idea how but I know it starts with actually talking, using the same vocabulary, facing the same reality, finding goals we can agree on.
It starts by making your country better. More like in Europe here. It’s like the US actively goes out of its way to punish people who weren’t born with a silver spoon up their ass. The way the American systems work seem to me to be actively toxic to a regular person’s mental health.
So you have a country full of a large population of people getting mentally damaged from unnecessary and avoidable stress in life… And THEN there are also loads of guns.
“But most gun deaths are from people using pistols to commit suicide” gee I wonder if that doesn’t mean something, hmmm?
You’re not wrong here, but the firearms aren’t making us violent. We need to fix our society, but instead you have one side wasting political capital on emotional legislation that won’t get passed and won’t fix anything even if it does.
European here.
Have never shot anyone. Not owning a gun means that I’ll probably continue not shooting people. It’s a very effective method.
American here, have guns, own my own range… never shot anyone and the likelihood of me shooting someone is a rounding error in the other shit that could kill me. Sounds like you have more probability of shooting someone than I do even.
If you’ve ever seen the difference a machine gun and a semi auto does to a body you’d be picky about it too
If you saw how dead the 4 year old is either way, you wouldn’t be.
I mean if we want to restrict anything an adult, teenager, or even older child could use to effectively kill four year olds, that’s a long list.
Targeting the most popular rifles in the country is a poor choice policy-wise though. It does very little to reduce homicide in general, and only maybe somewhat reduce casualties from a category of violence that’s claimed about 1400 people since the sixties.
Oh yeah because all those smoking bans sure failed to clamp down on one of America’s most popular drugs.
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Anything that an adult, teenager or older child could use to effectively kill a 4 year old? Not really. That’s a lot of amputations and we’d have to come.up with a disposal plan for all those arms and legs. Though I guess with everyone being a quadriplegic the ban on boxcutters would be easier to stomach.
Being serious though, look at homicide weapon stats in the US. If you wanted to prevent homicides, you’d restrict handguns and crack down hard on gang crime. For example, crank up penalties for concealed carry without a permit up to something just shy of extreme and make it somewhat more difficult to get a permit (not remotely impossible, but basically thoroughly vet people for it and have a yearly renewal that repeats the whole process). Rifles are not remotely a common homicide weapon - more people are killed bare handed in a given year in the US than are killed with rifles of any description.
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There a lot of 4 year olds getting killed in school shootings?
No you are right. Toddlers shoot their family instead
It is good to see young people taking climate action into their own hands
That question implies that any number besides zero is anything besides “infinitely too many.”
This is who we are.
A garbage, labor camp of a country filled with selfish people who’d literally rather have the option to buy whatever they want than protect children from a continuous stream of violent death, when they aren’t calling to further defund their schools to cut the taxes an actual society would require to function.
Oh, but I better root for the home team like its a fucking game, amirite? At this point, I’m rooting for climate change, AI, and all our other for profit monuments to greed to eat us and wipe the board clean.
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The point of the right to bear arms is to have some defense against an oppressive government if needed.
Want to get Republicans to jump on gun control? Just have minorities show up exercising their right to bear arms.
Ask Reagan.
That’s also a great way to get a bunch of brown people shot
Worked in California with minimal shootings.
Police kill on average 1k civilians a year…aka 1/40 of all gun deaths, including the 66% of the 40k~ a year that are suicides… the majority of which are minorities…so no it’s not working.
Republicans backed gun control. that’s what “worked”.
Republicans aren’t gun owners, they just use it as a wedge issue to get votes. They, just like the NRA, would love to make only rich people be able to afford defensive tools. Thinking that all gun owners are Republicans is hilarious.
Yes it is, but you do you and your history changing…gun control is rooted in racism btw.
No, not really, even in the wild West towns would force you to surrender your firearms to the sheriff before you could go anywhere else in town.
Just because Reagan was a racist about it doesn’t mean the very concept itself is racist.
What mental gymnastics did you perform to come to the conclusion that gun control is rooted in racism
Edit: history
It’s pretty well known that the Black Panthers movement back in the 1960s and '70s that promoted black people to open carry weapons was a huge motivation for Republicans, the NRA and Ronald Reagan to pass gun control legislation.
Yes that’s right, I said the NRA supported gun control regulation:
“Many of these gun laws specifically and explicitly restricted Black persons’ ability to possess and carry firearms. A more recent and salient historical example is the Mulford Act of 1967, which outlawed the open carrying of loaded firearms. The Mulford Act was signed into law by California’s Republican governor Ronald Reagan with the support of the National Rifle Association. Although it is not explicitly stated in the act, the passage of this particular gun control law was motivated by the open carrying of loaded firearms by members of the Black Panther Party who were conducting patrols in Oakland neighborhoods to protect Black residents from police brutality (Anderson, 2021; Cottrol & Diamond, 1991; Winkler, 2011).”
https://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/spotlight/issue-269
And
“The law, AB 1591—better known as the Mulford Act and named for its author, Alameda County Republican Assemblymember Don Mulford—banned the carrying of firearms in public, making it a felony to do so without a government-issued license.”
I think there’s some documentaries about it as well.
It’s literally the reason behind much of the first gun control laws. Things were fine until whites got scared when they realized African Americans have the same access to guns and they might start defending themselves against the oppression they continued to face in America. Similar to drug law, gun control is very much rooted in racism and NIMBY mentality.
Yep, armed minorities are harder to oppress. Gun control targets minorities the most.
The only time the NRA actually agreed with Gun Control was literally as soon as the black panthers became a thing
ronald regan didn’t like the black panthers
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look at this!
You really don’t know the roots of gun control do you?
Yes it is.
Historians could only “uncover” this reason because it’s buried under the actual reasons. All the rationale behind the constitutional amendments was highly documented at the time, public, and easily accessed and referenced.
You mean including the highly documented rationale that historian uncovered?
By the way, do you really think you could defeat the U.S. military with your gun collection? Even if you and a bunch of buddies got together?
First of all, fuck this racist guy commenting to this thread. I hate that his kind are so often associated with people like myself who believe our population should remain armed.
Second of all, the military cannot be called into domestic affairs, so your “question” is irrelevant. Maybe read more about history and the constitution before spurging your nonsense all over the place.
But mostly… fuck racists, especially kleenbhole.
Where does the Constitution say the military cannot be involved in domestic affairs? You are probably thinking of the Posse Comitatus Act, which does limit the use of the U.S. military in domestic affairs, but wasn’t passed until 1878 and could be repealed.
As to your second paragraph, yep, yes, sure. We got beat by a bunch of illiterate desert goat rapists and jungle Asians. Just need to outlast the political will of the oligopoly
Wow, that’s the most racist thing I’ve read in ages.
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Don’t get out much?
Why, would getting out more make me a racist?
Historians could only “uncover” this reason because it’s buried under the actual reasons.
Buried under the actual reasons? That somehow contradict the uncovered reason? Sounds like bullshit to me.
All the rationale behind the constitutional amendments was highly documented at the time, public, and easily accessed and referenced.
Then how did bullshit theory that guns were to overthrow the government get buried for so long?
it wasn’t buried.
Ain’t no slaves now. You want to disarm black people so they can’t fight back.
The irony that I’m black then.
And you’re anti-gun? You mostly fuck educated white women or something?
Am I not black enough? Lol
Why am I not even slightly surprised that you’re against a black person having sex with a white person?
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