Anonymous
07/11/2016 13:09
Subject: Re:When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Maybe now that people at BLM protests are openly carrying assault rifles in Texas, instead of white "from my dead hands types," the NRA will think reasonable gun control is something desirable.
The NRA has been eerily silent this past week.
They've spent two decades building a framework in Americans' minds that just crumbled to dust in one week.
It's gonna take them a while to recover.
And yet gun sales are breaking records literally every single month. I was reading that a single gun shop in FL was selling 30 AR-15s every single day over the last few weeks.
So disgusting.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 12:58
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
It's interesting to me how many people think it's possible to round up 11 million immigrants and deport them compared to how many people think collecting 15 million guns is impossible. No one is saying to ban all guns, just a small minority of them.
I don't know how much overlap there is between the two groups above, but it's still interesting.
I don't know how much overlap there is between the two groups above, but it's still interesting.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 12:31
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
That's funny. Who is going to go and try to collect them? You can't put the lotion back in the tube. Sorry. The best they can do is make ammunition too expensive to purchase, or hard to obtain. They've actually done that with the .22 ammo. The .22 is a starter rifle.
Make them illegal and impose high fines for possession. Offer a bounty to people who turn in the holdouts. It will take a decade to get most of them, but they'll eventually make a dent.
Australia managed to get pretty much all their automatic, semi-automatic, and pump action shotguns out of private hands when they were made illegal after the Port Arthur Massacre. Overall, 1 million firearms were destroyed. There were various gun "amnesties" offered to those who retained weapons, no questions asked.
This can happen in the US, too. It will obviously be on a much larger scale.
A million guns were seized? That doesn't even move the needle in the US, where 300 million guns are in private hands. Say it slowly and let it sink in: 300 million. Australia also doesn't have a Second Amendment.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 12:28
Subject: Re:When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Maybe now that people at BLM protests are openly carrying assault rifles in Texas, instead of white "from my dead hands types," the NRA will think reasonable gun control is something desirable.
The NRA has been eerily silent this past week.
They've spent two decades building a framework in Americans' minds that just crumbled to dust in one week.
It's gonna take them a while to recover.
And yet gun sales are breaking records literally every single month. I was reading that a single gun shop in FL was selling 30 AR-15s every single day over the last few weeks.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 12:03
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
That's funny. Who is going to go and try to collect them? You can't put the lotion back in the tube. Sorry. The best they can do is make ammunition too expensive to purchase, or hard to obtain. They've actually done that with the .22 ammo. The .22 is a starter rifle.
Make them illegal and impose high fines for possession. Offer a bounty to people who turn in the holdouts. It will take a decade to get most of them, but they'll eventually make a dent.
Australia managed to get pretty much all their automatic, semi-automatic, and pump action shotguns out of private hands when they were made illegal after the Port Arthur Massacre. Overall, 1 million firearms were destroyed. There were various gun "amnesties" offered to those who retained weapons, no questions asked.
This can happen in the US, too. It will obviously be on a much larger scale.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 11:56
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
That's funny. Who is going to go and try to collect them? You can't put the lotion back in the tube. Sorry. The best they can do is make ammunition too expensive to purchase, or hard to obtain. They've actually done that with the .22 ammo. The .22 is a starter rifle.
Make them illegal and impose high fines for possession. Offer a bounty to people who turn in the holdouts. It will take a decade to get most of them, but they'll eventually make a dent.
You're funny.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 11:52
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
That's funny. Who is going to go and try to collect them? You can't put the lotion back in the tube. Sorry. The best they can do is make ammunition too expensive to purchase, or hard to obtain. They've actually done that with the .22 ammo. The .22 is a starter rifle.
Make them illegal and impose high fines for possession. Offer a bounty to people who turn in the holdouts. It will take a decade to get most of them, but they'll eventually make a dent.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 11:51
Subject: Re:When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Maybe now that people at BLM protests are openly carrying assault rifles in Texas, instead of white "from my dead hands types," the NRA will think reasonable gun control is something desirable.
The NRA has been eerily silent this past week.
They've spent two decades building a framework in Americans' minds that just crumbled to dust in one week.
It's gonna take them a while to recover.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 11:47
Subject: Re:When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Maybe now that people at BLM protests are openly carrying assault rifles in Texas, instead of white "from my dead hands types," the NRA will think reasonable gun control is something desirable.
The NRA has been eerily silent this past week.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 11:45
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
+1
I've learned that some people that don't support a ban on assault riffles do it out of fear that a ban on ARs would be just the first step. Slippery slope. Men that love hunting. They think that if it starts with a ban on ARs, eventually their precious hunting guns will also be banned. I think it's nonsense.
It is nonsense. No-one needs an assault rifle. They are military weapons. Why don't our police have bullet proof vests that shield them from assault weapon bullets? Do they exist? I find that so sad that the Dallas police had no chance even with vests because they had handguns and the assault weapons can penetrate their vests.
Yes, the plates exist. However, the departments do not want to pay for them. My DH purchased his own. Of course, if it's a headshot, the plates won't matter.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 11:42
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
That's funny. Who is going to go and try to collect them? You can't put the lotion back in the tube. Sorry. The best they can do is make ammunition too expensive to purchase, or hard to obtain. They've actually done that with the .22 ammo. The .22 is a starter rifle.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 11:37
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
+1
They are not used for hunting animals; they are only used for killing large numbers of people in the shortest amount of time possible. They are not needed by anyone.
Ban, then buy-back and destroy. Want to keep one after they've been banned? Go to jail.
No ban will ever work. AR-15s can be built at home and will be smuggled in from elsewhere. Oh, and you really think the people who decide to own them anyway will go "to jail"? Double the number of prisons in the US and you still won't have enough room. Not to mention the costs associated with actually trying to enforce this.
Nice try. Just give it up already.
Well that was a well-reasoned response from someone who has clearly thought through the issue. Hint: this is why no solution will ever happen.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 10:59
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
+1
They are not used for hunting animals; they are only used for killing large numbers of people in the shortest amount of time possible. They are not needed by anyone.
Ban, then buy-back and destroy. Want to keep one after they've been banned? Go to jail.
No ban will ever work. AR-15s can be built at home and will be smuggled in from elsewhere. Oh, and you really think the people who decide to own them anyway will go "to jail"? Double the number of prisons in the US and you still won't have enough room. Not to mention the costs associated with actually trying to enforce this.
Nice try. Just give it up already.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 10:51
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
+1
They are not used for hunting animals; they are only used for killing large numbers of people in the shortest amount of time possible. They are not needed by anyone.
Ban, then buy-back and destroy. Want to keep one after they've been banned? Go to jail.
No ban will ever work. AR-15s can be built at home and will be smuggled in from elsewhere. Oh, and you really think the people who decide to own them anyway will go "to jail"? Double the number of prisons in the US and you still won't have enough room. Not to mention the costs associated with actually trying to enforce this.
Anonymous
07/11/2016 10:31
Subject: When Assault Rifles get into the hands of people that want to harm police, and other people
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think eventually, people are going to have to give those damn guns up. They serve no purpose to the general public. And clearly are dangerous in the wrong hands. Maybe we let people store them at gun ranges or something.
I will never understand how anyone can defend those particular firearms.
+1
They are not used for hunting animals; they are only used for killing large numbers of people in the shortest amount of time possible. They are not needed by anyone.
Ban, then buy-back and destroy. Want to keep one after they've been banned? Go to jail.
+10000