Enacting strict firearms legislation comparable to other countries won’t happen.
Are you implying that you don’t recognize changes in our society that have contributed to the increasing frequency and lethality of mass shooting murders?
The frequency has nothing to with guns, nor does the lethality. AR-15s were around for 48 years before the first mass shooting by a civilian using one.
In big cities?
No other weapon does what an assault rifle does. That is why they were banned for several years. I am not a weapons expert, but I would allow for personal use only those that are not used to take down another army during a war. I am not a gun lover but people in my life own them for personal protection and for hunting. These people are responsible (lock up their guns and know how to handle them) and, since it is required, they are licensed to carry concealed weapons in this state.
Wrong. Most Americans support universal background checks and have for a decade. We need to get our politicians off the NRA payroll.
Students are already armed in Alaska, as well as teachers.
That has always been the case. There are also a lot more students than there are police officers. Get a clue.
Really? My bolt action 6.5 Creemoor fires the exact same round as my AR-10 chambered in 6.5 Creemoor does. The PCC fires the same 9mm bullet at about the same velocity as my handguns do. "Assault rifles" are available in most common hunting calibers and most common pistol calibers. The bullets perform exactly the same way fired from semiautomatic rifles as they do from any other kind of rifle.
What kind of hunting rifles? Based on type you may just have banned them.
Most Americans don't know that they are ineffective and unenforceable because the folks that run polls don't tell them how they work, and most Americans don't bother the read the text of any bills they might support.
www.sciencedirect.com
Oh, so that makes it okay, right??
Repeating my previous comment, there has been a dramatic change in our society since the 1970’s.
www.nationalworld.com
I never said most Americans don’t support UBC’s. In fact, I’ve often reminded 2A absolutists that the majority of Americans, including NRA members, do support UBC’s.
Indeed.
Guns have never had more restrictions on them than they do now.Repeating my previous comment, there has been a dramatic change in our society since the 1970’s.
Mass shooting murders were an uncommon occurrence in the United States, including at K-12 schools.
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Every US school shooting since 1970 mapped - as America mourns Nashville tragedy
School shootings have happened in almost every state in the US since the 1970s – these charts will show you the scale of the problem.
Your claims that “frequency has nothing to with guns” and “lethality” would be laughable they weren’t so tragically wrong.
There is no supportable, logical argument against the simple fact that if firearms weren’t so readily accessible, those with the intent to cause mass injuries/deaths wouldn’t commit those atrocities, or that a semiautomatic rifle with a 30 round magazine doesn’t inherently have a greater potential for killing than a revolver or bolt action rifle.
Those “restrictions” have had no appreciable effect in curbing the massive increase in firearms ownership year to year.
For the third time, America today is very different than America 60 years ago.
And once it was realized how effective AR type rifles at killing in large numbers, they have become the mass shooters weapon of choice.
Handguns are still the most commonly used firearm in mass shootings, using any definition.
Following the generally accepted definition of “mass shooting” to mean 3 or 4 victims, you’re correct.
everytownresearch.org
I haven’t suggested banning AR’s.
It's important to have a common definition.
Nice job to omit 2007, where the third worst shooting occurred, with handguns. We should also factor in that the Vegas shooter used machine gun equivalents now banned, and that the Pulse shooter had three hours to work with as opposed to the 10 minutes needed by the VT shooter.
Lot's of folks have, and many of them sit in DC.Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines were disproportionately used in public mass shootings. Of the shootings with known weapon type, 76 percent of those that involved an assault weapon and/or high-capacity magazine occurred in public compared to 44 percent of those that involved a handgun.13
Mass Shootings in the United States
Mass shootings haunt our nation’s collective conscience. Each breaking-news alert results in grief at the acts of preventable violence.
I haven’t suggested banning AR’s.
I see both of those likely passing, and perhaps even some form of red flag law.
..and the rise of Trumpism, along with the hate/bigotry that came with it.....Repeating my previous comment, there has been a dramatic change in our society since the 1970’s.
Mass shooting murders were an uncommon occurrence in the United States, including at K-12 schools.
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Every US school shooting since 1970 mapped - as America mourns Nashville tragedy
School shootings have happened in almost every state in the US since the 1970s – these charts will show you the scale of the problem.
Your claims that “frequency has nothing to with guns” and “lethality” would be laughable they weren’t so tragically wrong.
There is no supportable, logical argument against the simple fact that if firearms weren’t so readily accessible, those with the intent to cause mass injuries/deaths wouldn’t commit those atrocities, or that a semiautomatic rifle with a 30 round magazine doesn’t inherently have a greater potential for killing than a revolver or bolt action rifle.
What's your point? That mass shooters are not early adopters? What matters is that they are now using these weapons of war against helpless children and our police is outclassed and afraid to confront them. It is a terrible situation and we have only ourselves to blame... and you sure are not any help either.
What do you think will happen if the "Assault Weapons Ban of 2021" gets passed and signed into law?
