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What gets me is the ridiculous defense of weapons like the AR-15.
The gun lobby argument of "we need good guys with guns to stop bad guys with guns" is moot when you consider how many good guys with handguns, even multiple fire ones, will get plowed down by the first round of fire from a weapon like an AR-15. AR-15 allow single shooters to kill many innocents or any combination of attackers and bystanders with complete disregard for any type of responsible reaction. I know very few responsible gun owners who want or need an AR-15. |
But there's money to be made selling AR 15s, so it's ok. |
I’d love to hear you say that to the families of the victims!! |
That argument forever lost any meaning it might have had with Uvalde. Hundreds of "good guys with guns" did absolutely nothing. |
They're concern trolling. In reality, they probably enjoy seeing black on black crime. Reduces the population of a group they hate. |
Exactly. |
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This is all about money.
The gun lobby (ie gun makers) want you to think it's about 2A. No. It's about making more money for the gun makers. They have brilliantly used fear and twisted 2A into selling more guns to the idiots who think having an arsenal of guns in their house "protects" them. You're more likely to get shot if you have a gun in your house. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/guns-handguns-safety-homicide-killing-study |
100 percent true. |
I'm not sure why you think you speak for the families of victims. I interact regularly with a parent of a victim of a high profile school massacre. He's been public with his views, so no one needs to speak for him. But he doesn't agree with you. |
The good guys were literally held back by the police. The door to the classroom of the shooting was unlocked the entire time while police did nothing, and parents begged for them to stop the attack. Parents who attempted to go in and stop it were handcuffed. Is this really the example you want to use for why we should trust the government to defend us? |
Not sure how you read that I'm suggesting the government defend us. From Uvalde, I see a whole lot of people trained in firearms and in law enforcement who were terrified to act against a single shooter with an AR-15. What are you proposing, exactly? ? Maybe a weapon of mass murder such as an AR-15 shouldn't be readily available to just anyone. And before you accuse me of being anti-gun, let me stipulate that I believe in 2A AS IT WAS WRITTEN AND INTENDED and am the child of a responsible gun owner with a concealed carry. There's no excuse for incidents such as that, and the NRA doesn't care...nor do the politicians who serve it. |