This is what I mean. It won't have an impact NOW because there are so many available, but kids, grandkids or whatever would feel the benefit eventually. There's a MASSIVE difference between a shotgun/pistol/knife or whatever in terms of immediate fatalities.
Yeah that's where it gets tricky: there's plenty of people who have mental issues, breakdowns, etc, who get over it and are perfectly fine afterwards. Given that 2A is a Constitutional right, it's dangerous to haphazardly put in laws that would restrict those rights for large groups of citizens. Maybe a guy is in school, he's stressing over SATs, his girlfriend leaves him, his mom dies, and he has a mental breakdown and has to go to the doctor. So he's now restricted his 2A for the rest of his life? Doesn't make much sense to me. And of course there are so many people with mental illness who would never dream of hurting other people.
The shooter used a shotgun. "Assault wrapon" is a made up term. I'd encourage you to look up the definition.
Some bitch on Twitter said something to the effect of "when you saw off the barrel of a shotgun, it becomes an assault weapon" hahah
soon as you legalize torture it becomes a weapon to be used against the innocent because the judicial system isn't even remotely fair
I think that if teachers are armed it should be commission based. Kill a school shooter and you get your bonus money, otherwise nothing. What makes anyone think teachers are less likely to lose their shit and shoot someone? aren't they the underpaid and overworked demographic?
what about bans on all automatic and semi automatic weapons? (I'm reading Seung-Hui Choi's wiki and he used semi-automatic pistols)
Automatics were banned decades ago. Semi-autos are the most popular firearms and a ban will do nothing to get them off the streets. Also, a revolver is just as deadly and can be reloaded just as fast with either a speed load, speed strip, or round clips.
Care to elaborate more on this point?
There’s probably around 75 million in circulation. Of course they will begin to diminish if a ban takes effect. So then how do you keep that number down when the smuggling begins and the black market gets flooded with them?
Other countries seem to be doing a decent enough job.
were those numbers inflated by including the shooters who shot themselves?
apologies, I didn't notice the link
I guess u didn't read that School Shooter Bertha used a shotgun and a 38 revolver...
This is the dumbest thing I've read in a long time...
Assault rifles are already illegal to own without a thorough background check and insanely expensive. Lsdt time a legally-owned assault rifle killed someone was when an off-duty cop killed his girlfriend with his service weapon.
This list includes a 14 yo who shot himself in a school bathroom...
Damn that list ends in Feb the 1st. We are in May right? I guess nothing to see here.
