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Originally Posted by Sarah_W
I don't see that happening. Forced buy back is the same thing as gun confiscation. The term is comical actually since the government didn't sell the guns in the first place they can't "buy back". I do not see this ever happening in our country. I can't fathom the loss of life from the people who would refuse to surrender their guns added to the loss of life from those trying to confiscate them.
Let's use some critical thinking here. As we know most mass shootings are done with handguns. If you think Americans would ever surrender handguns, well, I have no uncertainty the answer is no. Therefore, all of this effort is over AR styled rifles. Millions of dollars spent to try to ban them. I did the math in an earlier post but the reality is AR style rifles are responsible for 30-40 murders per year. So, the 77% of mass shootings would still occur and the 23% of killers who preferred to use an AR wouldn't have one and therefore would opt for handguns instead to do their mass shooting. What would we gain?
Let's start by hardening the schools, which is much more cost effective, and we begin by saving children.
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In the Las Vegas shooting 60 people were killed. It was done basically with a rifle - the preferred weapon of choice by killers PLANNING to kill large numbers of unrelated people. That PRODUCES terror and has people running and panicking when they hear a car backfire and they are in a crowd. The large mass murder PLANNED events of DOMESTIC terrorists are what has people looking over their shoulders at sports events, concerts, and churches.
Pistols are more likely to be involved in UNPLANNED murders of fewer people than rifles.
........I am NOT suggesting confiscation. What I am suggesting is that at the present day DRAMATIC increased rate of mass murders, eventually, society will be forced to say, "no mas" and strike a BALANCE between the insatiable greed of the gun manufacturers and the rights of Americans to NOT be gunned down in public !