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Originally Posted by Sarah_W
The FBI, DOJ and CDC all say you are wrong and have the data to prove that handguns are the weapon of choice for mass shooters. I think we'd all appreciate it if you'd do your homework before making outrageously false claims.
If you really want to solve the problem of mass shootings and at this point I'm beginning to doubt that because you are not taking the solutions seriously. Call out the media for glorifying these evil deeds. Demand they stop giving the killer the notoriety they seek. Encourage everyone to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights, get effective training and stop shooters where they stand. Take away their fame and take away their "high score" and the motivation disappears. Why aren't you doing something about this?
Who is talking about open carry? Half of our states, 25, are now Constitutional Carry. Florid is teed up to also be Constitutional Carry. Armed citizens stopped armed criminals 2.5 million times last year. it is estimated that 50-75% of those encounters saved a life. Isn't that awesome!
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There is a huge irony here.
Every time a mass shooting occurs, four things happen. 1). Media histrionics blow the entire thing up so out of proportion that it dominates the air and print media for weeks. Not just the shooting but of course vilifying the weapon, psychoanalyzing the shooter, and of course endless interviews of the bereaved, etc. etc. ad endless nauseam. Which then leads to 2). Copycat shooters. Studies have shown that anywhere from 50% to 80% of these shootings are copycat crimes. 1 and 2 together of course produces 3. Anti - Second Amendment political types which commandeer every camera, microphone and reporter within grabbing distance to thunder forth their HATRED OF ALL THINGS GUN and call for, in varying degrees, anything from limitation to outright banning of specific, or all, firearms.
But then comes 4. And 4 follows 1 through 3 as inevitably as water running downhill. Law-abiding folks buy up guns and ammunition like it was going out of style. Gun and ammo factories running 24/7/365 cannot keep up with the demand. This seemed to get into gear in all seriousness on about November 2008, which was the first real gun/ammo shortage I remember. And with each succeeding sequence of events 1 through 3, #4 seems to get worse. And not just guns and ammo; but reloading supplies as well. I did some reloading before coming here. New brass in the popular calibers was hard to find (fortunately I had a lot of old stuff) and magnum pistol primers were scarce as hen's teeth. And buying ammo off the shelves? Depending on where we were in the latest cycle--forget it. Oh, you could find the odd box of Romanian or Russian ammo (if you could put up with the corrosion and spotty performance it caused) but top-shelf American stuff was, again depending on where we were in the cycle, nonexistent.
The numbers are staggering. A CNN article , dated June 4, 2021 , stated the following: "There is no government or national database of gun sales, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation keeps track of pre-sale background checks, an indicator that’s been soaring to record highs.
In March, the FBI reported almost 4.7 million background checks – the most of any month since the agency started keeping track more than 20 years ago, and a whopping 77% increase over March 2019."
The interesting thing is that this report is just the tip of the iceberg; that 77% increase over March 2019 was just the LATEST increase. Background checks and resulting gun ownership has been skyrocketing in just about the same way for the past 14 years. Ther is no accurate count but I've seen estimates that, in the last 14 years, as many as one hundred MILLION guns have been sold to law-abiding Americans. That, folks, is one hell of a lot of guns.
Amazing! The histrionics of the anti-gun folks has done more to put guns into the hands of average Americans than any other one thing. Ever.
Ironic, isn't it?