City of Richmond School Safety Resolution: Ban ‘Large-Capacity Ammunition Cartridges’

Breitbart ^ | 03/19/18 | Awr Hawkins

[Simon Green]

A proposed City of Richmond School Safety resolution asks Congress to ban “large-capacity ammunition cartridges.”

The proposed resolution also calls on Congress to “ban the manufacture, sale, purchase, possession, and use of assault weapons.”

It also asks to implement “universal background checks.” Such checks would require a background check for a private sale just like the background check currently required for a retail purchase. Ironically, almost every high-profile firearm-based attacker acquires his or her gun via background checks at retail sales, so such an expansion would do nothing to prevent future attacks.

To date, attackers that do not acquire firearms via background checks most often get their guns via thievery. For example, the Parkland, Florida, school attacker passed a background check for his rifle, while the Sandy Hook Elementary attacker stole his guns. Universal background checks would not have prevented either attack.

The proposed Richmond school safety resolution voices opposition to arming teachers for self-defense, even as it calls for more gun control outside of schools. The resolution says, “The School Board and [Richmond Public Schools] is opposed to the arming of teachers to protect schools and children.”

Moreover, the proposed resolution calls for extending gun-free school zones. It should be noted that Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was not only a gun-free zone but an ammunition-free zone as well, yet none of these designations mattered to the gunman who was intent on taking lives of defenseless individuals.

The proposed resolution also calls on Congress to fund “programs to educate students and their families on the dangers of firearms.”

Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter Justin Mattingly reports the school board is expected to take up the school safety resolution at its next meetin

[rktman]

Large like .50 cal? Would that be a large capacity ammunition cartridge? I mean it holds a lot of propellant right. Like more than a .22 cal. Sadly these buffoons make sense to other buffoons.

[papertyger]

The proposed Richmond school safety resolution voices opposition to arming teachers for self-defense...

Gee, isn't it funny how these "authorities" aren't willing to do anything to fix the problem besides take guns away from people who didn't do the shooting?

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[goldstategop]

Just trust the police to protect your kids.

Like they did in Parkland.

[Qiviut]

Its now a southern NJ. Conservative VA is outvoted by liberal Yankees in the Washington suburbs.

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Agree with you on NOVA. Richmond City isn’t a ‘Yankee’ problem.

[goldstategop]

The most dangerous assault weapon on earth isn’t an AR-15.

Its a liberal.

[Sooth2222]

The M198 Duplex round had two bullets.

(It was not very successful.)

[Inyo-Mono]

“large-capacity ammunition cartridges.”

45/70s? I think I have some of those laying around somewhere.

[papertyger]

I just wish someone on our side had the balls to tell them “guns are off the table; find another solution.”

[redcatcherb412]

The M198 Duplex round had two bullets

Possibly referred to as the 'proctologist round' ???

[Real Cynic No More]

Let’s quit the argument, agree to ban assault weapons, and in the same bill explicitly define the one characteristic that makes a firearm an assault weapon: that being capable of automatic fire, whereas one trigger pull results in multiple rounds being fired. That should clear up any misunderstandings and get them to shut up.

[rktman]

🤔 "They" refuse to compromise. Me too.

[PTBAA]

Anything larger than a 5-inch shell is right out!

[Noumenon]

NO VA - Spanish for “no go”

[KarlInOhio]

Birdshot with hundreds of pellets.

[Blue Collar Christian]

There are 13 cities in the US named Richond.

[Lean-Right]

I’m pretty sure these were used during
the civil war. It was a exploding cannon
ball, filled with .50 cal lead balls.
It flew 6’ off the ground, and detonated
over the heads of opposing troops.
But I may be as full of crap as the
governing body who wrote this drivel.

[Lean-Right]

I don’t think these do dogooders are
ever going to catch on. They will
never be able to out-legislate the
criminal element. Killers are gonna
kill, no matter the medium/method.

[Mr. Blond]

I agree, there should only be one bullet per cartridge.

[stylin19a]

The kids at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were murdered quick.
So we should be banning quick capacity Ammunition Cartridges.