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Originally Posted by Blueblaze
Well, probably, but just the same, automatic carbines, machine guns, grenades, rocket launchers, tanks, howitzers, missiles, land mines, poison gas, bombers, and anti-aircraft guns have been outlawed in private hands since generations before any of us was born.
I think Taltarzac725's sarcastic post merely means he objects to scary-looking black rifles that he doesn't understand. I suspect they scare him because he never served his country and therefore has no idea what a real military weapon looks like. And he's obviously never been hunting or he would understand the difference between a little .223 caliber varmint-hunting gun and a seriously deadly 30-06 deer-hunting rifle.
Taltarzac725 -- since you find this subject so confusing, I have a suggestion. Drive over to Sportsman's Paradise this afternoon and ask them to show you the difference between a .223 round and a 30-06 round. I think you will be able to instantly discern which one is more likely to instantly kill a man. Then ask the guy to show you a .223 rifle and a 30-06 rifle, and see which one "looks" the scariest.
Believe it or not, looks can be deceiving.
Then, try to imagine yourself on a battlefield in 1776, facing an Englishman from 25 yards away, who is shooting at you with a beautifully-crafted "Brown Bess" musket, which fires a 3/4" round ball of lead at twice the speed of sound. You have no armor or protection of any kind and you are fighting the way they fought in those days -- standing in a line, shooting straight ahead. Your odds of surviving the experience are about one in four -- unlike today, when your odds of surviving a modern wartime gun battle using scary black rifles firing 700 hundred rounds a minute from 100 yards away are about 9 to one.
Is it sinking in, yet?
If the problem of lunatics with scary black varmint rifles bothers you, here's an idea.
Instead of trying to outlaw the millions of scary black guns already in circulation, what if we outlawed LUNATICS -- like we did for the 200 years before the asylums were emptied and we started having mass-murder events every month or so?
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It WOULD be nice if we could outlaw lunatics. Just outlawing lunatic drivers on the local roads would be a GIANT step for humanity. keeping large numbers of lunatics in an asylum would be a great idea. Some could be helped. But, we would ALL have to pay increased taxes for that, probably property taxes, and people would be very reluctant to do that.
.......My opinion is to remove easy access for the LUNATICS to acquire their favorite weapon of choice - the semi-automatic rifle. Yes, it has been pointed out that in total there are more mass murders with pistols than semi-auto
rifles. A lot of the mass shootings with pistols are spur-of-the-moment decisions and the pistol is available and easier to hide than a rifle. When a LUNATIC takes the time to plan out his (most are men) mass attack they pick a soft target crowd and they use their "weapon of choice" - the AR-15- style rifle.
.........It is easier to stop the US sales of AR-15-style weapons than trying to outlaw LUNATICS. Also, making laws to restrict magazine size to 5 rounds would be easier. Making the lunatic be at least 21 years old to buy a semi-auto rifle would also be relatively easy and effective.
........The problem is that mass murder events are increasing and will continue to increase. At some level of DEATHS, US citizens will be convinced to go against the will and obscene profits of the gun manufacturers.