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Now AR-15s, otoh, are used to hunt quite often and have been in self defense many times... Here's an ad for the AR-15 from the early 60's... https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...40954570_n.jpg |
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The bad guys have ruined it for the good guys , turn in your guns now . |
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I just don't understand why so many people are confused! If you are killed by a motor vehicle we don't try to ban motor vehicles, we look at the person operating it. Hence a gun is nothing without a operator! If you put your feelings aside there has only been one common denominator in all of the shootings, and that is related to the mental health of the gun owner. Guns do not function without a operator. We desperately need to change the way we need to address mental health. Again so many people have remained silent when they have witnessed someone with a severe mental health problem. Why, because we have become a nation of Karen's that are only willing to gossip about problems but do absolutely nothing to fix the problem because they are too lazy to get involved! Open your eyes,watch your surroundings and see something and do something! All of these situations have started at home because of a total breakdown of family structure. The problems then head to school where nothing is done to fix the home or school situation. Upon no effective mental health intervention the individual starts into a dark spiral.Fix the family equation, fix reporting of mental health problems, ban computer games that desensitize children by rewarding them by killing ! Children have become de sensitized by such games.Some can differentiate from fantasy and reality and others can't that's the issue. Please think about my thoughts and please try and help the situation. Because these are not normal thinking individuals I'm worried that if we remove there guns as weapons what are they going to use to commit these horrible crimes with next??? In closing I say Mental Health!!!!
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The first step in solving a problem is to identify the problem. Is the gun really the problem or is it a symptom of the problem. This issue has turned into a political cudgel to sway people to vote for thier political party.
If our government could work together to properly identify the problem and come up with a meaningful way to combat it that is not based on politics we may get somewhere. More gun laws is not the answer ..... it's a political tool. |
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The proof of the accuracy of the quoted post isn't hard to find. It exists in the past of most of us. Back in the day (1960's) guns were everywhere in the area where I lived. We even brought guns to school: gun safety and training classes were held on a regula basis, so bringing a gun to school was commonplace. We had to store 'em in the Principal's office until it was time to use them but the ammo we just carried loose in our pockets. Dad collected guns (had over 50 when he died), and my siblings and I were all taught at a very early age how to use and care for guns, but most of all how to RESPECT guns. Along with that, we were taught at home from toddlerhood to RESPECT one another as well. I, as well as the great majority of the people of the time, came from two-married-parent households with strong role models for both genders. We learned strong positive values from an early age, both because of the parental role-models we had and because we knew that if we transgressed significantly we'd have a warm behind. Once in school, Mom and Dad had one cardinal rule: "Don't get in trouble at school and then come home and tell us about it, because you'll be in twice as much trouble at home". And they meant it. Contrast that to today. The lack of effective parenting has led to a significant lack of values, mainly on the part of the young but certainly not limited to them. Penalties under the law, even when applied, usually end up being so watered-down because of plea-bargaining that it hardly serves as any kind of deterrent. At home when I was a youngster, we never locked anything. Today, I lock everything, even in relatively crime-free TV. And my wife and I both have handguns in our nightstands. It is a different world than the one many of us grew up in. And we seem intent on following a path that is guaranteed to make it even worse. |
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The CAPABILITY of the gun IS THE ISSUE!!!! |
It is my God given right to defend myself. It is reaffirmed in the 2nd Amendment. But the 2nd Amendment is also there to protect us from a tyrannical government. And only a tyrannical government would disarm it's citizens.
There should be strict enforcement of gun laws, and the consequence of violating them should be severe punishment, and IMHO, in many cases the death penalty applied. But then the leftists would say that certain minorities would be impacted, and that's not fair. Others would say that it's too cruel and unusual punishment. Let's take the emotion out of the argument, express only the facts, and apply logic to eliminate the problem. |
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Bullets that EXPLODE? Or bullets that expand. I've never seen a gun that would DECAPITATE a person. I think you've watched too many movies. |
I expect the good people of Ukraine would prefer to have AR 15's right now as well as those in Venezuela.
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Instead they say, "I think I want to kill a bunch of people" and they go get an AR-15. (MOST mass shooting that is the weapon of choice) What is the difference? One is large and can get most places where people congregate, guns are designed to kill (some people like to kill watermelons with them) and do it quickly and efficiently and they are easy to get into locations where lots of people are in close quarters. Yes, the question of WHY that people decided to kill a bunch of people is a better question than what they used. But, in order to figure out why we have to gather information and study it and come to conclusions. We were going to do that, then a party got into office and make it illegal to study gun related deaths - care to guess which party? |
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