Posted on 02/19/2018 2:02:11 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
I need not dwell on the catastrophe of the Parkland, Florida mass murder last week. Such killings have become the new normal in America.
In five of the six deadliest mass shootings of the past six years in the United States (Newtown, San Bernardino. Las Vegas. Sutherland Springs, and Parkland) the gunman used an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
This is a weapon that was banned for individual ownership and usage by the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. This 10-year ban was legislatively enacted by a Democratic President, Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress.
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No just an ass-hole.
Do you truly believe that it was the A/R 15 style of weapon was responsible for the deaths at these children and other shooting around the country?
My A/R 15 has never left the gun safe unless I have been with it. It has never, on its own killed anything. It has never induced me to kill anything that I did not want to kill.
Do you actually believe that if we banned A/R 15 style rifles that we would live in peace,and never, ever have another mass shooting? Really? Have you given this subject any actual thought? Not emotional knee jerk reaction but actual thought.
It should be clear by now it is WE, conservative Constitutionalists, who are the "RINO's." The Republicans, the GOP, are merely a wing of the Uniparty.
We have tried a federal assault weapons ban, several states have implemented state-wide assault weapons bans. They don't work in preventing mass or school shootings.
So no matter who, or what credentials they seem to have arguing that we should ban any form of assault weapon as a means of stopping even a small segment of firearm violence is at least according to Einstein........INSANE.
Not exactly stellar credentials.
Let’s add another layer that failed. I read the folks that Mr. Murderer was staying with thought they had the only key to the safe. Yes. The AR was locked in a safe.
Why?
What makes them different from dozens of other semi-auto hunting rifles?
Cosmetics?
A law which was shown to have zero affect on crime.
Yayyy, let's do something feel-good and useless!
I have no evidence so this is just personal opinion.
The Democrats do not want to solve this school shooting stuff because it furthers their agenda of banning and disarming the citizenry. I believe they actually support this gun violence and encourage it whenever they can. I would not be surprised if they caused it to happen.
Their only solution is banning guns, even though it will not solve the problem at hand. I believe they are, if nothing more sinister, complicit in these act of violence.
Yep!
A member of the Leftist UNIPARTY!
The whole state government sucks.
Hey ... Ban them in Chicago ... then after 3 months if it doesn’t make a difference, then kill the legislation and don’t EVER bring it up again. But don’t “test legislation nationally” ... that didn’t work with Prohibition did it?
Okay, well there is the Ruger Mini14 ...
That is not a shadow. That’s a black dude dressed in black up against the wall while white woman Gov. Christie Todd Whitman frisks him for “looking suspicious.”
Another dangerous idiot heard from.
Thanks. That’s funny, I hadn’t noticed the shoes.
Er, in the movie, I think he said “Come and take them!”
Let’s ban liberals! All of the shooters have been liberals/liberal indoctrinated.
“The policy imperative for reinstating the Federal Assault Weapons Ban is abundantly clear.”
This makes about as much sense as banning historic American flags because 30 or 40 people are shot down on the streets of Chicago every weekend.
Better answer: get rid of liberal policies altogether.
Just rename it to an AR-14, if the congresscritters are stupid enough to call out the design. :-)
Laz?
taterjay has a suggestion for your graphic at post #65
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