He should just leave the location blank...
Jesus. Shorts and lace up ropers? When the fuck has that ever been okay?
That's the problem with the argument that the real reason behind America's shooting problem is the mental health aspect, and only the mental health aspect. Of course it's part of it, but it's not a useful or realistic deflection. While that guy should (and did) have his firearm confiscated, you can't adopt a wholehearted reliance on arresting people for what amounts to thought crimes. You ever read tale of two cities?
The Brady Act, after the Reagan assassination attempt, was the ban on assault rifles. It was allowed to expire under the Shrub Administration. And I do not recall hearing a whole lot about mass shootings until the ban was lifted. So yeah, common sense gun laws, even ones initiated by Republicans, clearly don't work, nope.
The ban was lifted due to it not having much effect on gun violence. Assault weapons were rarely used before the ban. Recent history excepted, they aren't use in the majority of shootings now either.
Just reference your own memory. How many mass shootings and how many times were AR-15s in the news before it expired? Shit's gone up yo. Back in the 90s a fella had a pack a truck full of horse shit and bleach.
There's no question that the lack of an AWB contributed to the shit ton of these rifles in our country.
IMO, that's a large part of the problem, if not the actual problem, we've flooded ourselves in guns, I can go to walmart and walk out with an AR-15 in a few minutes and tons of ammo, people buy and hord them, they give them to family members, they are so numerous that even a small percentage "falling through the cracks", means thousands, if not millions, of weapons, in the hands of bad people, not to mention the totally legit-at-the-time-of-sale people that later snap. Then of course we glorify guns and give kids toy-guns to practice killing humans with, video games, glorify it in movies, make people believe that they can be John McClain in Die-Hard and be a hero, all contributing to the need to own more guns. The cat is out of the bag in many ways, we've gone so far down the path of stupid that it's hard to take that back. This all feeds back into the loop of accessibility and making it easy to kill a bunch of people real fast from a distance without getting your hands dirty. I like shooting guns, I seeing gun safety and responsible owners, but so many bat-shit-crazy far right idiots have made these mass murders pretty much guaranteed.
It's a whole host of things that contribute to the complex reasons why there is a dramatic increase in mass shootings, but it boils down to two basic elements, this country's unhealthy obsession with guns and the ridiculous availability of military grade weapons.
For the record, you motherfuckers have no idea what you are talking about.
Which means the gun pictured below was legal as long as you unscrewed the flash suppressor and screwed on a compensator.
Meh, my memory isn't the best, but I did actually did see the live coverage of the Reagan assassination attempt and the aftermath of Brady getting shot in the head. Wasn't going by Wikipedia...Were you even born yet ?For the record, you motherfuckers have no idea what you are talking about.
The "Brady Handgun Voilence Prevention Act" was mostly about background checks and had nothing to do with "assault weapons"
The "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" (AWB) did ban "assault weapons" which were defined as:
Which means the gun pictured below was legal as long as you unscrewed the flash suppressor and screwed on a compensator.
Just thinking we should actually know what we are bitching about.
For the record, you motherfuckers have no idea what you are talking about.
The "Brady Handgun Voilence Prevention Act" was mostly about background checks and had nothing to do with "assault weapons"
The "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" (AWB) did ban "assault weapons" which were defined as:
Which means the gun pictured below was legal as long as you unscrewed the flash suppressor and screwed on a compensator.
Just thinking we should actually know what we are bitching about.
I was referring to the Fed AWB.For the record, you motherfuckers have no idea what you are talking about.
The "Brady Handgun Voilence Prevention Act" was mostly about background checks and had nothing to do with "assault weapons"
The "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" (AWB) did ban "assault weapons" which were defined as:
Which means the gun pictured below was legal as long as you unscrewed the flash suppressor and screwed on a compensator.
Just thinking we should actually know what we are bitching about.
Yeah I know, but he seemed to think that there would be less AR-15s if the AWB were still in place. Which isn't true.Dan-o said the AWB. That doesn't include the word 'brady'
Not following what you're indicating in that picture.....
You don't think there would be less 'assault rifles' in circulation if the AWB had remained in effect? Have there been no sales since 2004?
I dunno man. Depends on what you consider an "assault rifle". If you mean an AR-15 then no, they were never actually banned. A few easily removable features were banned.
But doooood
No argument there. I'm just pointing out that the AWB would have in no way prevented any of the recent mass shootings unless you think a telescoping stock was the main problem.
I'm not asking for specifics of the law, I'm asking you to use your own memory. Are you old enough to remember (serious question)? There's a saturation now that didn't used to exist.
I wasn't around in the old times so I can't personally remember how many AR's there were back then compared to today. But I'd say the proliferation of ARs is more of a cultural thing than related to the AWB lapsing.
Right.....they're everywhere now. Because manufacture of them shot up like a motherfucker after the ban expired. It really did. AK-47s were the collector's item before the expiration and you can still find blog posts, articles, and forum topics from that period with people asking about which they should buy because the market was getting flooded with ARs. Whether someone is thinking about this when they buy one is irrelevant. They're very very available now. And most of the builds have a few things that were covered in the ban.
Did it? Really?
Anecdotally, this exact discussion was going on at work yesterday. Big rush among some of fellas to get a bunch of parts and lowers together before "some nut job gets them all banned". It was also noted how cheap AR's are now compared to just a couple years ago. As noted earlier, the market is saturated with the things.
Trickle down economics...
It goes up a bit. Not as much as in 2001. If you want to say it all started in 2004 you could make that argument. There doesn't seem to be the big increase I would expect if you want to make a strong case for it. To me it looks like upward trend starts in 2001.
