Gotta start somewhere.
It might not be sweeping reform but it could get the ball rolling.
Gun Control
It might not be sweeping reform but it could get the ball rolling.
Just make the bullets $200 each. Probably at least $250 now with inflation.
If you have a cell phone...
Same problem that @Adventurous pointed out. Gun owners can make their own ammo. You could tax some of the components like gun powder, but it would still be cheaper than paying the tax at a store.
They still need bullets.
Indeed. Bummer there's no progress towards bi-partisan legislation instead of these patchwork laws that are dubiously effective and hard to enforce.
I struggle with thoughts on this issue, and often end with a little lost faith in humanity. I watched a bit Trevor Noah had on guns and he basically said that we have to start somewhere and can’t just throw our hands up and say “what can we do?”
To me, the AR15 is the pit bull of the gun world: it is identifiable and scary looking to many people, but statistics don’t really show it to be the major cause of harm when you look at the total gun deaths in the US. The majority of of non-suicide gun deaths in this country are handguns used in events that don’t qualify as mass shootings. I absolutely want to see gun violence in this country reduced, and starting with weapons associated with mass shootings of children and teachers in schools seems like a good place to start the process. I’m just cynical and think that legislation passed will have issues with enforcement, and even if it didn’t, that people determined to commit such atrocities will figure out how to get around the system.
The more I think about it the more I realize I want a “perfect” solution, but sacrificing the good for the perfect won’t do any good because there isn’t a perfect. Change has to start.
The assault weapons ban worked.
What blew up in this country after it was allowed to expire is absolutely undeniable.
What blew up in this country after it was allowed to expire is absolutely undeniable.
When I hear about a shooting or murder here in town, 99% of the time, it's a handgun. It's an assault weapon, because again 99% it's a handgun intended to kill other humans, it's not a target .22 or large bore scoped hunting revolver.
one thing we can't legislate away is that far too many people selfishly care about their own rights more than they do the lives of other americans
Perhaps the most insightful comment in the history of ridemonkey.
i've taken to pointing out that the founding fathers considered "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as 'inalienable rights'.
and they waited a while to add their boom sticks until they had to start amending their damn documents
Interesting piece by Michael Fanone, Jan 6 cop:
www.cnn.com
Opinion: Here's the reason people tell me they want to buy an AR-15. And it's simply ludicrous | CNN
No weapon has been more in the public eye than the AR-15, in large part because of the tragic role it has played in some of this country's deadliest shootings, former DC police officer Michael Fanone writes. Fanone, who owns one of the weapons, writes that the AR-15 has the dubious distinction...
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Great. Now we have a news cycle of Matthew McConaughey.
A fucking what now?
Also just posted this in the lounge, but I see I was supposed to post it here:
Just… wow. I take it that’s some sort of special scope you can look through from a way off?
But mainly, I think anyone who tries to buy one of those should be scooped up and sent to compulsory therapy.
The mental health issue in this country is it's sick obsession with firearms. So many people here fail to see that. The GOP doesn't want to do anything to restrict the access of firearms, but instead says that we need to do something about mental health and not guns. If you can't see that worshiping a tool of death is mentally unhealthy, then we are truly lost.
FTFY
He must have read that a lot of times. Because I don't know if I could have made it past the shoes. But that also might have been the purpose of his outburst - to change/release the rage/despair before it consumed him. Because multiple times in that press conference he almost broke. You could hear it in his voice.
about 40 years ago i my brothers and i were friends of a kid whose dad was a avid hunter and who my dad knew through work....before owning a AR15 was something that was a thing that was popular....i doubt he ever would have owned one...
he had a 44 magnum with about a 14in barrel set up in similar fashion....
censor first person shooting games....shit....just make them illegal...
There is little to no evidence that video games contribute to gun violence in any way. It is just a scripted excuse handed out by the NRA to be repeated by their cronies. There are a lot of other countries where children play more of those games than in the US yet they somehow don't have the same problem with gun violence.
Maybe the US could send them some guns?
Would also need to send them toxically fragile egos.
lack of access to guns.
soooooooo maybe video games are just a red herring
Totally wasn't me.
www.cnn.com
Armed man arrested near Brett Kavanaugh's home charged with attempting to murder a US judge
He told law enforcement he had traveled from California to kill "a specific United States Supreme Court Justice."
www.cnn.com
Why not?Totally wasn't me.
Armed man arrested near Brett Kavanaugh's home charged with attempting to murder a US judge
He told law enforcement he had traveled from California to kill "a specific United States Supreme Court Justice."
Look at all those things that need restrictions. It’s going to take a while to work up to restricting firearms. Let’s see how good the backpack lobby is.Totally wasn't me.
Armed man arrested near Brett Kavanaugh's home charged with attempting to murder a US judge
He told law enforcement he had traveled from California to kill "a specific United States Supreme Court Justice."
You are going to have to pry duct tape from my cold dead hands.
Good luck getting any of my hammers mutherfucker !
A Disturbing New Pattern in Mass Shootings: Young Assailants (Published 2022)
Six of the nine deadliest mass shootings in the United States since 2018 were by people who were 21 or younger, a shift from earlier decades.
Did you actually read the article?A Disturbing New Pattern in Mass Shootings: Young Assailants (Published 2022)
Six of the nine deadliest mass shootings in the United States since 2018 were by people who were 21 or younger, a shift from earlier decades.www.nytimes.com
I didn’t know you were all about hammers.