Posted on 06/14/2025 11:03:11 AM PDT by JohnRLott
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) claims that suppressors make mass public shootings more deadly. Between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2024, there were 104 mass public shootings, but only two of those involved suppressors (Virginia Beach, Virginia in 2019 and Milwaukee in 2020). The average number of casualties from mass public shootings with suppressors is actually lower than the average without (11 v. 19.8), though the average number of people murdered is exactly the same as (8.5 v. 8.5).
Senator Murphy also claims that suppressors will make it so that “no one will be able to hear the gun shots.” But AR-15s or .45 caliber handguns are as quiet as a jackhammer is at close range. Of course, when Senator Murphy says “think of how many more classrooms that shooter can get into, . . . think of how many more rooms in a church that mass murderer might get to,” firing a gun within an enclosed space does make the sound of the shot louder and more intense for those inside a building. In an enclosed space (like a room or vehicle), the sound waves from a gunshot rebound off walls and surfaces, amplifying the noise.
Regulations governing firearm suppressors (also known as silencers) vary significantly across Europe, ranging from permissive to very restrictive, but despite higher per capita rates of mass public shootings in some of these countries, there are no mentions of suppressors being used in mass public shootings....
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He’s Columbo. If you put a pillow over it you can’t hear the gun either.
Sourcing his facts from late night B movies.
Hey, same with a plastic soda bottle!
Our own Senator Chris Murphy - he’s so stupid he’s adorable. Sort of like Mazzie Hirono from Hawaii, just not as masculine...
Jackass watches to many movies, the only ‘silencers’ that actually come close to what he’s shoveling are very expensive and in the hands of elite military.
So if someone who is really good at chemistry makes a really good flame thrower and kills 20 to 50 people with it I wonder if Murphy would be spouting that we need to ban gasoline altogether or just ban it for non-government use?
a 2 liter coke bottle works great.
DO NOT ASK ME HOW I KNOW
I’ll have to give that a shot.
Liberals & guns. Remember Dyin Fineswine sweeping a room with an AK-47, drum mag inserted, finger on the trigger?
I’m surprised our snipers don’t use them. I’d be harder to find. Do they affect accuracy?
How did the antigun rhetoric work out in Minnesota for Melissa and Johnny?
CT communists are always on the alert for propaganda opportunities...
Old philosophical question.
If a Democrat’s inane statement falls from his mouth in a forest with no one to hear it, does it make a sound?
Nod to George Berkeley’s question expressing his philosophy of immaterialism. (That objects only exist through perception.) 1700s.
Lying? Stupid? Both?
Democrats with brains are more deadly than those without.
+1
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I am so fed up with (bullets and clips) people who know NOTHING about firearms and ammunition. Every handgun is a Glock… every rifle is a fully automatic “assault rifle.”
Even most You Tube “experts” violate safety rules and say stupid stuff.
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