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Originally Posted by Steve9930
I am a gun owner and an NRA Member. Here what people need to understand about the AR-15 Platform. Its a very efficient weapon. I would not put it into the hands of an unsupervised 18 year old male. There are also some weapons that are just as efficient that should also not be put into the hands of an unsupervised 18 year old male. Last little tid bit. You can buy all the equipment you need to build your AR-15 from scratch, over the internet. It is not possible to remove his weapon from society.
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First of all, 66% of all mass shooting have been committed with a handgun.
Secondly, if you are a gun owner, then you should know quite well that I can take my semi-automatic pistol with a 17+1 capacity and twenty magazines stuffed into my cargo shorts and kill as many people as someone with an AR-15.
I agree. It is not possible to remove most any weapon from society. It is certainly not possible to confiscate all of the guns in this country even if were constitutional to do so.
The answer to the problem of school shootings is to harden the targets by having trained, armed adults in the schools. One armed guard is not enough. Some of these schools are 300-499 yards across and three stories high. An armed guard could be very far away from an incident. We need several armed people on every floor in every building.
Secondly, law enforcement has to do a better job of identifying and reporting people that shouldn't have access to a gun. The Parkland shooter is a perfect example. That guy should have been on everyone's list. Instead, the sheriff's dept shielded him.
Thirdly, law-abiding gun owners need to be held responsible when their guns are used by an unauthorized party to commit a crime. The father of the kid who did the shooting in the Maryland school needs to be held accountable for allowing his kid to get hold of his gun.
Any talk of banning certain guns and making it more difficult for good, responsible, law-abiding citizens to get guns in order to protect themselves is nothing more than stirring the political pot.
And anyone who thinks that a bunch of fifteen-year-old kids have any idea about how to protect them in a school is sadly mistaken.
There are people in this world who are experts in law enforcement, security and protection. They are the ones that we should be listening to when it comes to protecting our children.