no one has ever walked into a school and murdered American children with an automatic weapon that was legally possessed or purchased
Thank you.
Does it make the murdered children any less dead whether the automatic weapon was legally purchased, or not?
no one has ever been murdered by a legally owned (private person) machine gun in the USA other than a police informant, over the last 70 years
Ask @TurtleDude. That is the terminology he used in his post# 676, which is what I responded to.
My bad. "Semi-automatic weapons."
I edited myself to "semi-automatic weapons". But the point wasn't the gun, was it? The point was that you claimed (after sponging FoKKKs) that "the breakdown of the family" causes gun violence.
Based on what?
Why don't you review for us, since you butted in, and now appear to have anointed yourself as class monitor?
the fact that firearms were even more widely distributed 60 years ago and semi auto rifles have been easily available for 100 years and our own government distributed hundreds of thousands of semi automatic military issued carbines to the US Public for decades. and there weren't these mass shootings back then, So it wasn't the guns or the availability of firearms.
Which post?
You don't know how to look at the poll results after being here at DP for 5 years? Try actually making an effort to click the tab, and see for yourself.
I didn't say it was. Sigh. The question asked was how a different poster bases their assertion that "the breakdown of the family" is the cause of gun violence.
No, you didn't. Post 687:
well my point is this-it's not the guns. so what has changed. I think -after spending 30 years as a prosecutor in various jurisdictions, that a breakdown in the family is a key factor
That's odd. You hadn't bothered to look at the poll results OR inquire as to whether, or not, I wished "to elaborate" before putting forth your your post# 692, did you?