Posted on 03/20/2018 6:35:06 PM PDT by 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
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WTF is a “high capacity ammunition cartridge”?
Sorry,
“Large”
We need more gun control!
What we really need is more liberal control - like in NOVA.
Large and high are the same thing.
Must be: 12 gauge shotgun cartridge.
.50 BMG?
.408 CheyTac?
12ga?
I agree, only 1 bullet allowed per cartridge. The high capacity multi bullet cartridges are a hazard. /S
Nothing. The term is meaningless drivel, and illustrates nicely that the vast majority of disarmists are completely incompetent to suggest policy on any matter at all, firearms most definitely included. Their best bet would be to sit down, shut up and tend their own knitting.
I know, but I was quoting so I should have used the same word they used.
Uh, 105mm howitzer?
They think shooters can massacre a lot of people one shot at a time - even with a high capacity cartridge.
Nope. Didn’t even happen in Parkland. Oh wait - Richmond isn’t calling for banning Gun-Free Zones.
Got it.
Morons making Laws ,LOL
I was being sarcastic.
;-)
Thank You God for the range time in BCT, honing it for the year in RVN, and All the time since. Amen
Well, I never thought of it, but now that they mention it, I am all for banning “high capacity ammunition cartridges.” After all, “we must do SOMETHING,” and this will be as effective as the other liberal ideas. Plus, it doesn’t impinge on the 2nd Amendment in any way that I can imagine.
They actually want to keep teachers and students disarmed.
Another pigeon-shooting gallery monument to liberal stupidity.
Then again, this IS NOVA we’re talking about.
Oops. Sorry. I missed it completely.
Potential shooters will eventually realize that 12 gauge 00 buckshot will make for a far uglier scene
and then the Grabbers will go for shotguns too. Sorry, Slow Joe, Jill will have to just blast a couple rounds of spitwads into the air out their back door
Richmond is not part of Northern Virginia.
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