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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Assault Weapons | Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Ban the sales of these kind of weapons to anyone and try to buy existing ones back.
Police and the military can get them from whatever source.
That is at least something that can be done.
And start challenging the hard line approaches taken by the NRA and their supporters. Common sense measures should be sought after and not bumper sticker platitudes.
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Historically, the NRA helped to create sensible gun laws that hadn't previously existed. Now, they are a powerful pro-gun lobby group that wants to eliminate those same laws that they helped to create.
Until they take ownership for their responsibility in the mess was have now, where one state can have strict laws that are bypassed simply by going across state lines, no amount of OTHER changes will make a single bit of difference.
In an emergency situation where someone's leg was shot up and sepsis has begun to climb up the artery, you don't tell the patient to wait while you spend a few days figuring out why he got shot. You address the sepsis immediately and if necessary - remove the leg.
Our country is experiencing sepsis, and you all want to address the cause of the sepsis. That's great. We really SHOULD address the cause of the sepsis. But first, we need to stop the sepsis. That sepsis is semi-automatic weapons, and inconsistent gun laws between the states.
Another analogy: someone driving a car has a heart attack. You don't keep driving while you figure out why he had a heart attack. You pull over and deal with the heart attack. Mass shootings = man driving a car while having a heart attack.