Originally Posted by Ptmckiou (Post 2112913)

It’s very simple. The USA has the highest per capita gun ownership of any other country on the planet. Thereby, by your logic, the USA should be by far the safest country to live on the planet. That is not true. It’s not even close to being true. Consequently, your logic is flawed.

Another thing many like to cherry pick….”Chicago with the strongest gun laws…” Strong gun laws mean nothing in overall statistics, when anyone can drive a few miles to another nearby state and get their weapons with less strict gun laws. Thereby, cancelling out any statistical value to one small area having strict gun laws. It becomes irrelevant, unless all are following the same strict laws. Like our forefathers implied, I’m all for every citizen of the USA to carry a musket. No problem at all. I am against any citizen owning a gun that enables them to kill “faster” without reloading using bullets that explode inside a persons body Lessing their survivability, and it decapitating childrens heads. This type of weaponry is absurd to be accessible by someone not trained and lack maturity to handle them.

Originally Posted by MartinSE (Post 2112925)

Eight of the top ten states for murder rates have the least gun control, Illinois is not in the top 10.

Originally Posted by forebubba (Post 2112928)

Keep voting for those who reject common sense gun legislation.
Minority rules.

Originally Posted by popbaby2 (Post 2112930)

If guns were more tightly controlled EVERYWHERE then they couldnt get them in chicago as easily as driving a few miles away as they do now. What other civilized country has the shooting that we have. NONE by a long shot. We need more more more gun control

Originally Posted by Bellavita (Post 2113116)

2021 Nearly eight-in-ten (79%) U.S. murders in 2020 – 19,384 out of 24,576 – involved a firearm.

Originally Posted by MartinSE (Post 2113064)

This is pretty weak. It offers NO solutions, and just throws out dog whistles.

If it is Lightfoot's fault, what happened in the other 327 mass shootings this year?

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2113145)

Care to give examples of such "common sense" regulations?

Originally Posted by forebubba (Post 2113077)

Do you need a military weapon designed to kill and rip apart anything it hits?

Originally Posted by MrFlorida (Post 2113088)

The Supreme Court say's its our Constitutional right, if you don't agree you can move.

Originally Posted by Pballer (Post 2113084)

I can see needing a semi-automatic for the "sport" of hunting. Make sure the animal has no chance.

Originally Posted by Pballer (Post 2113115)

I guess it is the great equalizer for hunters that have no marksmanship skills. I wonder how they ever shot birds in the 19th and earlier centuries.

Originally Posted by MartinSE (Post 2113119)

So people who are not literate in some you know about should just shut up? No point in trying to understand what they are saying? No point in trying to politely educate them? No point trying to discuss, just rant about a word that is improper.y used while every two days more people, often children, die.

Good plan

Originally Posted by forebubba (Post 2113150)

I did previously...no need to repeat it

Originally Posted by forebubba (Post 2113152)

It was written when they had muskets.
If you need it for protection pray the other doesn't have an AR15