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Robert Landers said, 5 months ago
Perhaps the only legal weapons should be the kind that existed at the time the second amendment was written?
This would sure limit (only if truly enforced) mass shootings. By the time you got off your first shot and then went through the same loading procedure that they had to use to reload a flintlock mechanism, someone would sure as heck tackle you and put you down!!
Oh well, just dreaming, I guess…….
rightisright said, 5 months ago
Hey Toles, 50,000 gun laws on the books isn’t enough?
You liberals are hopeless. Wanna stop more bad guys with guns? Allow more good people to carry them. This is too difficult a concept for liberals to grasp.
dtroutma
said, 5 months ago
Even with semi-autos, it’s when they run out of ammo they get taken down as they try to change clips/magazines. The more they have at one loading, the more people die. Civilians now have magazines that hold twice what ours did in ‘Nam, and we don’t call them “military” or “assault” weapons???
jnik23260 said, 5 months ago
@rightisright
And how would that have prevented the school shooting? If teachers have firearms in the classroom, how can they kee them handy enough to be drawn quickly without being too easy for the children to get hold of one? Or maybe you want some of the kids to pack heat.
Seriously, the shooter and his mother WERE law – abiding citizens! The mother bought the weapons legally, and was trained in using them. She just didn’t need a Bushmaster for self defense. And if she hadn’t been allowed to own one, her son wouldn’t have had it.
You conservatives are pathetic.
Clark Kent said, 5 months ago
There should be no such thing as a firearm.
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I joined the USAF in 1966. In basic training I had to pick up an M16 for the first time. I felt violated having to touch it. Every year we’d have to qualify again. I carefuly followed the instructions because if we didn’t do it right the first time and get a good score they’d make us do it again and I hated having to even be near that thing.
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I don’t have a gun. I have only one sharp knife in my kitchen.
I keep it in the back of a drawer so that if anybody breaks in to my place he/she won’t have easy access to it. I also have 2 cans of wasp-hornet spray next to the bed to spray into the face of anybody breaking in. And I have a length of 600 amp power cable to use as a club.
sjc14850 said, 5 months ago
@rightisright
Ad hominem attacks are pointless, but if they make you feel better…
Anyway, NOBODY needs a weapon that fires hundreds of rounds a minute. Nobody.
Trantor0815 said, 5 months ago
@rightisright
you make it too easy for yourself. Fight Fire with Fire. Maybe you wouldn’t need that if you don’t give everyone a lighter.
Nobody need such weapons for hunting deers, bears etc. They are only build for man-hunt
runar
said, 5 months ago
Anybody who needs an assault weapon to shoot a deer doesn’t deserve a hunting permit.
saywhatwhat said, 5 months ago
@runar
For those who go on about “the right to bear arms”, it’s not about hunting. They think they need to protect themselves from hoards of poor and hungry people. They also think they have to be prepared to overthrow the government, if it doesn’t do what they want.
In short they have given up on civilization and democracy. They want to stay on the road to emulating Somalia and Afghanistan, but are too dense to see what they are doing.
New gun laws are not going to be the answer — at least not alone. We need to find a way to step back from the gun culture and “it’s all about me” mentality, and embrace the civilization that the (gun carrying) pioneers worked so hard to try to bring about.
Radish
said, 5 months ago
The rifle the kid used was a semi automatic that fired closer to 45 rounds per minute, not a machine gun.
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Those wanting to overthrow the government, good luck taking on the most expensive and well armed military in the world.
Loco deSane said, 5 months ago
@jnik23260
this is misleading. What does gun control issues have to do with this tragic event? CT already has some of the most restrictive gun measures in the nation. This monster tried to buy a gun and could not (what the law was designed to do, no?) so he murders his mother and takes her guns to commit the crime. Now, how on earth would any law have prevented this?
Sometimes evil just is and we can’t legislate it away.
capndunzzl said, 5 months ago
…fires only warning shots?
Respectful Troll said, 5 months ago
As one who appreciates pistols, shotguns, and rifles, I have still always spoken against the ownership of military grade weapons in the hands of unregulated civilians unless they had special licenses as collectors or as members of police auxiliary or national guard. I have always been totally against clips holding more than 10 rounds.
As one who once lived in a rural community with one sheriff overseeing a large area, I know how weapons for home defense can also be important
Perhaps Mortyfortyrant can help me with this…
On my visit to Germany in 2008, I believe I was told that anyone who wanted to own a firearm had to take a mandatory class on care, use, storage, etc. I was given the impression it was a pretty in depth course.
In Virginia, you can go to a Gun show, they have several in my area per year, and without a background check waiting period, or training, walk away with a weapon that can shoot through walls.
Guns don’t kill people, People kill people. This is true. But a 30 round clip makes people able to kill A LOT of people, and THAT is what we need to change. No one person should be able to kill so many people before having to reload.
The only argument against this come from those who say we need these weapons to defend against a US government that turns on its own people, or so said Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America. Mr. Pratt is certain that guns in the hands of citizens will protect us from dictatorship, voter fraud, and other ills.
If we descend into that level of civil war, the Constitution and Bill of Rights no longer apply and the USA will no longer exist except as a name. I don’t believe in this scenario.
Gun control is not a gun ban. It is like speed control on the highways, or laws requiring seat belts and not texting while driving. It allows you to do what you want and need to do without being a danger to your community.
Respectfully,
but sadly,
C.
badgerman said, 5 months ago
Toles’ only problem is a complete lack of basic knowledge of the subject: NO fully automatic weapon was used in any of the civilian massacres. They sometimes appear in drug gang wars, and of course the cops and military use them all the time.
It doesn’t matter where you stand on an issue, if you are going to keppep from appearing the fool, you must learn the basics of the subject matter.
douthett72 said, 5 months ago
I don’t understand hwo people can focus on gun control while ignoring the real issue and that is people with serious mental health problems not getting the help they need.
Of coruse people don’t want to think that their children, spouse or friends might have some mental health problems