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Originally Posted by charlie1
I used to be a hunter and really would not want anyone to stop me from having my hunting guns. I could even see the potential reason for personal handguns for self defense. BUT I do feel that there needs to be much more control on automatic guns and long range rifles. Why can't our politician see that there are different guns for different purposes and band, or at least strongly control, any weapon that could be used for mass murders! Gun violence has gotten OUT OF CONTROL!
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We tend to be influenced by what we a fed in the news. First of all the term ASSAULT RIFLe endlessly wrongly used. An assault rifle is by definition an AUTOMATIC weapon. You need a special permit, virtually impossible to get to own an automatic weapon.
CAUSE AND EFFECT? The areas of our nation with the highest number of shootings-New York, Chicago, Los Angeles also have the tightest gun control laws. Laws by definition only effect law abiding people.
Obvious press bias. News where the criminal is stopped by a legal gun owner. Are there none? NO they just are not reported. Here in the Villages. I know several. Grandma who looks like Aunt Bea of Mayberry is a deadly shot and is carrying.