Posted on 09/14/2016 11:13:43 AM PDT by rktman
NO matter how many times the gun lobby says it, more guns wont make Americans safer.
Thats especially true of semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15. America has seen again and again the lethal cost of these weapons of destruction deployed in civil society, from Newtown, Conn., to Orlando, Fla., to San Bernadino, Calif., to Umpqua Community College to Mukilteo.
Although these so-called assault weapons, fitted with high capacity magazines, are used in a small fraction of Americas gun homicides, they are terrifyingly powerful when deployed. Such weapons resulted in 155 percent more people shot and nearly 50 percent more people killed compared to other mass shootings, according to an analysis by the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety.
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I hated the M16, the M14 was much better in Mass Shootings when I was in VN.
I was thinking when they said ban one of the most powerful weapons they were talking about Starbucks coffee.
Doctors are even more dangerous
One hundred and forty years ago the terror weapon was the tube fed lever action rifle in the hands of the Sioux and Cheyennes.
No one ever demanded that particular rifle should be banned from all ownership!
Please, if you wish to ban these items from those of us who would use them in self-defense, please come take them from us yourselves. Yes, come knock on my door, and demand them. Don't be the pajama-boy pussies we all know you to be, and push to have others do your bidding. Come get them yourselves.
I had one just like it. Too bad I lost in a boating accident.
We should ban so-called “progressivism” instead.
Take it to Congress and tell them to amend the Constitution.
Until then, get effed!
Where’s the editorial to ban the CAUSE of the mass - murders of americans? Repatriate all of the islamics now!! ( including O). While we still can
Same here. I swear, those free float tubes don't work worth a damn.
Leftists demonstrating both their ignorance and their fascist tendencies.
Well, that's okay then.
Rollback the Auto ban of 86.
Instead of going on the defense, we need to go on the offense. All day. Every day.
F these people. Every last one.
So ‘terrifyingly powerful’ that many states ban AR’S from being used to hunt deer because it is considered such a small round, and thus an unethical kill.
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