"Did somebody say, 'Loofah'?"
Posted on 02/19/2018 7:19:21 AM PST by KeyLargo
Something needs to change,' says Milwaukee native who turned in rifle to authorities
A Milwaukee native said enough is enough and turned his semi-automatic rifle into the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
Ben Dickmann grew up in Milwaukee, but moved to south Florida years ago. He shared a Facebook post of a sheriff's deputy taking possession of his AR-FiveSeven, which is similar to the AR-15 that was used in the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Dickmann said only law enforcement should have guns that powerful.
"Something needs to change, and it needs to change now," Dickmann said. "People have been doing nothing but talking about it for the last 10-15 years."
As of Friday night, the post had more than 200,000 reactions, and 90,000 shares. He’s been getting a lot of feedback.
"I would say 90 percent has been very positive," Dickmann said. "Ten percent has been very, very negative. Almost threatening."
But one message sticks out to him and reaffirmed his decision.
"I even got a message from one of the parents at Stoneman Douglas privately on Facebook, thanking me for what I did. And that, that right there, meant the world to me," Dickmann said.
Instead of selling the gun, he turned it over to the Sheriff's Office so it can safely dispose of the rifle.
“If he’s a danger to himself, shouldn’t he also admit himself to a local psychiatric ward?”
The Left is crying that Trump wants mentally ill people to have guns.
No, Trump Did Not Make It Easier for Mentally Ill People to Buy Guns
Shooting revives deliberately misleading talking points about a bad regulation both the NRA and the ACLU opposed.
Scott Shackford|Feb. 15, 2018 1:15 pm
In the wake of yesterday’s deadly school shooting in Florida, President Donald Trump tweeted that there were signs that alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz was “mentally disturbed.” Trump encouraged people to report bad behavior to authorities.
In response, a Twitter and media parade of people spouted misleading claims about an Obama-era regulation that Trump and Congress rolled back:
None of this is a remotely accurate description of what happened. A year ago, Congress and Trump eliminated a proposed rule that would have included in the federal government gun background database people who received disability payments from Social Security and received assistance to manage their benefits due to mental impairments.
This is a regulation that potentially deprived between 75,000 to 80,000 people of a right based not on what they had done but on the basis of being classified by the government in a certain way. The fact that these people may have these impairments did not inherently mean that they were dangerous to themselves or others and needed to be kept away from guns.
As I noted when the regulation was repealed last March, this rule violated not just the Second Amendment but the Fourth, because it deprived the affected people of a right without due process. The government does have the power to restrict and even deny gun ownership to people, but it has to show that these people have engaged in behavior that makes weapons dangerous in their hands.
That’s why the regulation was opposed not just by National Rifle Association (NRA) but by several mental health and disability groups and by the American Civil Liberties Union. Pundits largely ignored the latter groups’ opposition to the rule, preferring to play up the power of the NRA and their influence on Republicans to turn the issue into a partisan fight.
It was hackery then, and it is still hackery today. It’s shameful to ignore the serious constitutional problems of this poorly conceived rule just to sow panic and implicate one’s political opponents.
‘Was his rifle threatening to do something bad?’
that’s why his gesture amounts to no more than virtue signalling, no matter what he thinks he is accomplishing...
if he didn’t intend to go out and shoot people in a populated space, then his weapon is no more dangerous than a loofah sponge...he’d have made more of a statement by hanging on to the gun and putting it to its intended use, whatever that is for him...
Did he turn in his car keys? I mean he might get in an accident! How about his booze? Might over-drink and hurt someone!
Heck, just turn yourself in, dude, on the chance YOU might do something to hurt someone!! Let the gun stay at home, perfectly safe.
And how, exactly, do the police handle this? It is a privately-owned, perfectly legal device. Do they take it as a donation?
Does he mean like the Gestapo, KGB and the Stasis?
He is aptly named.
"Did somebody say, 'Loofah'?"
Is this true?
Yes, it’s true, this man has no dick.
Will the chief put him into NICS as PP?
Forgot my sarc tag...
Bingo!!!
HA!
Actually, I give the guy credit for knowing his own limitations.
Instead of turning the rifle over to the government, he should have given it to me.
Your replies show that you are NOT necessarily in agreement with the man, who turned in his assault rifle. I’m unsure how I feel about those particular weapons. I am PRO-2nd Amendment. However, assault rifles aren’t for hunting, and are bought by criminals in alleys across nation, for purpose of evil. The old saying ‘don’t bring a knife to a gunfight’ is appropriate, if you have only a 22 handgun, and your attacker has an assault rifle.
If parents handled children better in this country, it would be a no brainer. Hunting & guns are a big part of America, and my childhood. A gun was always loaded, and standing in the corner...and I knew not to touch it! Are children responsible enough today to do that? I think discipline has changed to where ‘no fear’ of discipline exists, as it did in years gone by. A belt, a switch, or my Mama’s temper was enough to make me behave!
YOUR post stirred up controversy, yet your pics are clear truth! We can’t ban everything that causes accidents, or even death.
Enjoy the day!
Actually if you look at statistics on bath tub and shower accidents a loofah sponge may be more dangerous than a law abiding AR. more young children drown in swimming pools each year than guns and there is no cry to ban privately owned backyard swimming pools.
The AR-15 fires a .22 cal bullet.
The idea of someone voluntarily surrendering their own firearms doesn’t bother me. The line is crossed however, when there’s an expectation that the rest of us surrender ours.
BEN DICKMAN from Milwaukee, the Gay capital of the Midwest! This crap writes itself!
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