Fixating on the semi-automatic firing mechanism makes about as much sense as saying that most drunk drivers prefer automatic transmissions. I imagine the popularity of semi-auto handguns versus revolvers is pretty similar to the ratio of automatic to manual transmissions on the road. It’s just what most buyers prefer now.
Indeed, if civilians are not to have repeating weaopons, why would the police require them?
That other handgun that remained "in his car" -- plus hundreds of thousands of others under the control of responsible owners -- hurt and killed no one!
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(Most liberals are able to comprehend the truth of the above; but, their overwhelming thirst for control demands that they ignore it...)
Silly, childish stuff; if semi-automatic weapons were outlawed, then criminals would use revolvers.
If all firearms were outlawed, criminals would use knives.
If knives were outlawed... and on and on into an infinity of pre-adolescent ruminations of the sort that has brought no one any safety - as we see only too clearly by examination of overseas nations.
Moreover, criminals intent on mischief would always find sophisticated weaponry on the black market - stolen from police and National Guard armories.
Mass slayings by those previously considered sane, meanwhile, would continue with other deadly implements, only to lead to a society in which every chef in every restaurant from coast to coast would have to be registered in order to purchase a knife.
Children, meanwhile, would be forced to give up the sport of baseball for fear of baseball bats.
A nation cannot live on its knees simply because the fact of the matter is that some of its members go insane from time to time, and we are reminded that many of the worst mass slayings in world history are recorded much before the invention of firearms.
Indeed, it could well be argued that firearms in the hands of private citizens have PREVENTED a good many of the excesses of violence witnessed in the Middle Ages.
A philosophical question. Since the guns I like best are glocks and springfield xd’s, which are both “evil”, what gun should I carry?
A philosophical question. Since the guns I like best are glocks and springfield xd’s, which are both “evil”, what gun should I carry?
A philosophical question. Since the guns I like best are glocks and springfield xd’s, which are both “evil”, what gun should I carry?
The leader of the temple could have used more firepower. Taking on the shooter with a knife had a predictable outcome.
And the blood dancing builds to a frenzy. The three sources quoted in this article were the VPC, the Brady Campaign, and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. It’s a little like doing a story on the invasion of Poland and quoting Hitler, Goebbels, and Goering.
