In shootings, is the gun to blame?

[Rich2018]

O.k. Automatic rifles are already illegal. New ones, at least.

What was the point in banning new automatic rifles, but allowing gun owners to keep the ones they already had ?

 

[BroHaHa]

What was the point in banning new automatic rifles, but allowing gun owners to keep the ones they already had ?

It's not as easy to take things like that away from people as it might appear. Policing the manufacture of new guns is one thing...there are relatively few manufacturers. But there are hundreds of thousands of individuals with those weapons and they aren't the type to turn them in for a gun buyback.

 

[Rich2018]

It's not as easy to take things like that away from people as it might appear. Policing the manufacture of new guns is one thing...there are relatively few manufacturers. But there are hundreds of thousands of individuals with those weapons and they aren't the type to turn them in for a gun buyback.

I know it was done that way, because a complete ban was politically impossible, but I have to ask again what was the point ?

 

[RF667799]

My apologies if I hurt your feelings, but you're not debating, you just making blanket statements - with more than a little emotive content
Statements that frankly do not stand up to examination



You make a blind assumption and then speak of insults.



You appear to support the idea that everyone in the USA should go about their business armed...a notion that is at best ridiculous.

Quote where he appeared to say that?

 

[RF667799]

The USA has reached saturation level with guns now, a few more million makes zero change in homicide stats.

Except...you know...the homicide rate has trended down.

 

[Rich2018]

I know it was done that way, because a complete ban was politically impossible, but I have to ask again what was the point ?

A bit like banning AR-15's but allowing sales of M-16's.

 

[RF667799]

A bit like banning AR-15's but allowing sales of M-16's.

Quoting yourself=spam.

 

[Rich2018]

A bit like banning AR-15's but allowing sales of M-16's.

Or M-4's.

 

[RF667799]

Or M-4's.

Still spam. Obviously so.

 

[RF667799]

Or clones of M-16's

Or near clones of preceding posts.

 

[Rich2018]

A bit like banning AR-15's but allowing sales of M-16's.

Or clones of any automatic ArmaLite rifle.

 

[RF667799]

Or clones of any automatic ArmaLite rifle.

Deleting your own posts after quoting them doesn't lessen the fact that the practice is spam. Idiotic spam.

 

[RF667799]

Like banning a semi-auto Uzi submachine gun, but allowing a fully automatic version.

Like continuing the spam in another form.

 

[RF667799]

Or banning a British made SLR and allowing a fully auto FN FAL.

Or obsessively spamming a thread with meaningless comment.

 

[RF667799]

Or banning a semi auto M-1928 Thompson, but allowing a fully auto version.

I think you could have demonstrated your vast knowledge of firearms in one post.

One very short post.

 

[Rich2018]

Or banning a semi automatic M1 carbine, but allowing a fully automatic M3.

 

[RF667799]

Or banning a semi automatic M1 carbine, but allowing a fully automatic M3.

Both are allowed in this country. Will you be coming to some sort of concluding point soon, or is this pure obsession?

I guess another possibility is deliberate derailment. Was there a point you lost badly, somewhere up thread?

 

[Rich2018]

Or banning a semi automatic M1 carbine, but allowing a fully automatic M3.

Even if the M3 was responsible for zero shootings, it would not make sense to ban the M1 and not the M3.

 

[Antiwar]

Absolutely. Most conservatives know that most liberals believe that guns are alive.

 

[Rich2018]

Absolutely. Most conservatives know that most liberals believe that guns are alive.

Please name one such liberal.

 

[RF667799]

Even if the M3 was responsible for zero shootings, it would not make sense to ban the M1 and not the M3.

It would be silly to think an inanimate object is responsible for anything. If someone threw a brick through your window, would you rant and rave about damn bricks? Maybe you would.

 

[Rich2018]

Absolutely. Most conservatives know that most liberals believe that guns are alive.

Experience shows that what most conservatives "know" bears no relation to reality.

 

[RF667799]

Experience shows that what most conservatives "know" bears no relation to reality.

You just got done assigning criminal culpability to an inanimate object. That should show Antiwar, eh?

 

[Antiwar]

Experience shows that what most conservatives "know" bears no relation to reality.

You got it.

 

[cpwill]

Absolutely. Most conservatives know that most liberals believe that guns are alive.

Well, to be fair, a week or so ago, a lot of left leaving media was blaming an SUV for running into a crowd.