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Columbine Survivor To O’Rourke: Why Shouldn’t We Ban All Semiautomatic Weapons?
Hot Air ^ | September 20, 2019 | Allahpundit

Posted on 09/20/2019 9:23:51 AM PDT by C19fan

As you’ll see, O’Rourke has no answer to this perfectly predictable question except to mumble something about weapons of war. But why should we focus on weapons of war, asks Columbine survivor Evan Todd, when they’re responsible for only a fraction of all gun violence? The Columbine massacre itself wasn’t carried out with assault rifles, he notes. Ed sent me a spreadsheet in which he ran through the FBI’s most recent statistics for murder by firearms and found 10,982 in total in 2017, of which exactly 403 were committed with rifles — a rate of 3.67 percent. There were many more murders committed by “unknown firearms” but even assuming (falsely) that every last one was committed with an assault rifle, that would still put the total of murders by rifle at just a third or so of all firearms murders.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020election; 2ndamendment; banglist; betoorourke; columbine; election2020; evantodd; guns; irishbob; juliancastro; nra; potus; secondamendment; texas
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1 posted on 09/20/2019 9:23:51 AM PDT by C19fan
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Isn’t that where gun control regimes that the Left want to implement end up? Some countries allows shotguns and single shot weapons but the ability to own a semi-auto no way.


2 posted on 09/20/2019 9:25:16 AM PDT by C19fan
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I’d rather ban students.


3 posted on 09/20/2019 9:25:36 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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Here’s another idea - why not ban murder?


4 posted on 09/20/2019 9:25:39 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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#BlackGunsMatter


5 posted on 09/20/2019 9:28:46 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Ban dumbass presidential candidates, who are just doing it for the novelty.


6 posted on 09/20/2019 9:30:06 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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That Columbine survivor is now a full grown adult.

Do they not want the ability to defend themselves because they were under siege by two nerds who met no opposition in their school from personnel?

What morons, what freedom hating, suicidal morons.


7 posted on 09/20/2019 9:30:29 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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If you ban semi-automatics that leaves revolvers, bolt and lever action rifles and shotguns. All of which are 150 year old technology.


8 posted on 09/20/2019 9:30:46 AM PDT by circlecity
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“Columbine Survivor To O’Rourke: Why Shouldn’t We Ban All Semiautomatic Weapons?”

Which is exactly what the Democrats want. Does this poor sap actually think the government will keep illegal gun from crossing the border just like they keep tons of illegal drugs from crossing the borders which are fairly easy to detect or keep out thousands of illegal aliens from crossing the border which are really easy to detect?


9 posted on 09/20/2019 9:32:11 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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RE:”Columbine Survivor To O’Rourke: Why Shouldn’t We Ban All Semiautomatic Weapons?”

That's an end goal for them, but they know better than to tell us that now.

10 posted on 09/20/2019 9:32:31 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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Just get rid of all guns and then everyone will be safe forever...

Then one guy with a gun rules the world.


11 posted on 09/20/2019 9:33:09 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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That guy set Beto up. It’s pretty obvious. If that guy is a Gun Grabber, I’m Godzilla.


12 posted on 09/20/2019 9:33:23 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Why shouldn’t we teach all youth, and as much of the adult population who are relatively unenlightened, about the customs, care, grooming, and proper respect for ALL firearms?

It is ignorance about firearms and their potential for either good or evil that is at the root of most of these mass slayings.

Firearms have a purpose, and that is either to stop a living creature from harming ourselves, or as a means of harvesting game in the field, for later consumption.

Sometimes, the “living creature” is an armed man with malice intent. Self-defense is a perfectly adequate reason to return fire upon those who mean you harm.


13 posted on 09/20/2019 9:35:57 AM PDT by alloysteel (Nowhere in the Universe is there escape from the consequences of the crime of stupidity.)
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They hate ar-15 because it is black:)


14 posted on 09/20/2019 9:36:09 AM PDT by NorseViking
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"Here’s another idea - why not ban murder?"

Yes, and poverty, and illness, and hunger, and obesity, and unhappiness, and tooth decay, etc. etc.

15 posted on 09/20/2019 9:39:14 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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I have a news article in my collection that was written around the time of the handgun buyback program in the United Kingdom following the 1996 Dunblane murders (Project Snowdrop, IIRC). The article contained an interview with frontline police officers who were charged with receiving people who were turning in rare heirlooms and/or expensive Olympic target shooting pistols.

These officers said that their issue with the ban was not that it was too strict but that it was basically incoherent. They were far more likely to see sawed off shotguns or rifles (as well as knives or clubs) in the commission of violent offences as opposed to the items that were being turned in. Therefore, it is not surprising that the FBI statistics would likely tell a similar story here and now that basically challenges and contradicts the public image that someone like Beto wants to create with banning certain types of firearms.


16 posted on 09/20/2019 9:43:18 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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A double-action revolver is a semi-automatic weapon.

One trigger pull, one shot, ready to fire again immediately.


17 posted on 09/20/2019 9:44:49 AM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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Their final end goal is “no firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizen’s hands”.

They want most of us dead, the rest in chains.


18 posted on 09/20/2019 9:45:42 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Any citizenry being told to downsize their weapons should beware of the goals of their government. Fascists, communists and socialists want their people to be unarmed. And it isn’t because of a small percentage of people being murdered. They are looking at the big picture and so should we.


19 posted on 09/20/2019 9:52:55 AM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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That would also ban revolvers. He’d had to go back to single-bullet guns, like the flintlock. We, as in the law abiding citizens. The criminals can still outgun us whenever they want.


20 posted on 09/20/2019 9:53:39 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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