Don't believe so. It was originally designed as a survival rifle:
https://www.ammoland.com/2016/04/ar-15-rifle-historical-time-line/#axzz5D7uJ8SuL
Of course not. I see gun bans as pointless. Regulation is the key
Alright than lets move on to the next argument, "An armed civilian population prevents dictatorships from forming."
Lax is a relative term - compared to some countries that don't allow private ownership, or that require private guns be locked up at a gun or hunting club, we are lax. As far as our "laxness" causing most gun deaths - correlation does not imply causation.We have the most lax gun laws of any developed nation on earth and the most gun deaths. Not a coincidence
Lax is a relative term - compared to some countries that don't allow private ownership, or that require private guns be locked up at a gun or hunting club, we are lax. As far as our "laxness" causing most gun deaths - correlation does not imply causation.
Not the point.Name a country with more lax gun laws than us.
Not the point.
No concession given. I never claimed there were any countries with more lax gun laws - first off you'd have to define what "lax" really means. Second you'd need to correlate gun deaths with violations of our laws vs being cause by a lack of a specific law or failure to follow procedures already written into law. Look at the Florida shooting for example: How many failures to follow procedure allowed Cruz to buy the gun and get on campus? Gang violence? How many of their guns are purchased legally? The list goes on. Just because we have a failure to follow the law doesn't mean we need yet another one.I accept your concession. I guess its just a giant coincidence. LOL
No concession given. I never claimed there were any countries with more lax gun laws - first off you'd have to define what "lax" really means. Second you'd need to correlate gun deaths with violations of our laws vs being cause by a lack of a specific law or failure to follow procedures already written into law. Look at the Florida shooting for example: How many failures to follow procedure allowed Cruz to buy the gun and get on campus? Gang violence? How many of their guns are purchased legally? The list goes on. Just because we have a failure to follow the law doesn't mean we need yet another one.
You still haven't defined "lax"; what law are those states missing? Also are you talking ALL gun deaths or just murders?Yeah its just a great coincidence. I'm with you buddy
Also that states with lax gun control have the most gun deaths. A giant coincidence
You still haven't defined "lax"; what law are those states missing? Also are you talking ALL gun deaths or just murders?
All, of course. He has to include suicides to try to support his argument.
In other words you lack even a basic understanding of what "Constitutional" means. Nothing new there.
You still haven't defined "lax"; what law are those states missing? Also are you talking ALL gun deaths or just murders?
Lax is a relative term - compared to some countries that don't allow private ownership, or that require private guns be locked up at a gun or hunting club, we are lax. As far as our "laxness" causing most gun deaths - correlation does not imply causation.
You still haven't defined "lax"; what law are those states missing? Also are you talking ALL gun deaths or just murders?
We have the most lax gun laws of any developed nation on earth and the most gun deaths. Not a coincidence
Obama’s Argument
The president made his comments on Oct. 1 after a mass shooting that day at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon, left 10 people dead, including the shooter.
Obama, Oct. 1: We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths. So the notion that gun laws don’t work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals [to] still get their guns is not borne out by the evidence.
We have written before about gun control issues, and the inability to determine causation between gun laws and gun violence. As Susan B. Sorenson, a professor of social policy at the University of Pennsylvania, told us in 2012, “We really don’t have answers to a lot of the questions that we should have answers to.” And that’s partly because a scientific random study — in which one group of people had guns or permissive gun laws, and another group didn’t — isn’t possible.
When we asked the White House about Obama’s claim, a spokesman sent us links to other studies that found states with more gun restrictions had fewer gun deaths, backing up Obama’s claim that “states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths.” But it doesn’t back up his claim that “the evidence” shows there is a link between the gun deaths and gun laws.
Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health looked at gun laws and gun deaths in all 50 states from 2007 to 2010, concluding that: “A higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually.” Their research was published in JAMA Internal Medicine in May 2013. But the study said that it couldn’t determine cause-and-effect.
One of the authors, Dr. Eric Fleegler, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital, told the Boston Globe that “n states with the most laws, we found a dramatic decreased rate in firearm fatalities, though we can’t say for certain that these laws have led to fewer deaths.
There's no concrete proof that proves what you are saying...
Something from factcheck.org you might want to read...
https://www.factcheck.org/2015/10/gun-laws-deaths-and-crimes/
For your reading
States with Weak Gun Laws and Higher Gun Ownership Lead Nation in Gun Deaths, New Data for 2014 Confirms | Violence Policy Center
Commence with the attacks. LOL
The Violence Policy Center advocates for gun control. Not exactly an unbiased source. They've also been criticized for using inaccurate stats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Policy_Center
Thanks for the additional backup. I will use it often
Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health looked at gun laws and gun deaths in all 50 states from 2007 to 2010, concluding that: “A higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually.” Their research was published in JAMA Internal Medicine in May 2013.
You're cherry picking something said completely out of context but go ahead if you need to do this to suit your false narrative.
We have the most lax gun laws of any developed nation on earth and the most gun deaths. Not a coincidence
That's a very good point. Restrictionists embrace the broad brush approach to control issues. IMHO there are more than enough laws on the books to control guns, we need to focus on the intentional violators and those who obtain guns because of lax performance. Although the Las Vegas shooter is still wrapped in mystery most of the other mass shooting perps waived more than enough red flags, had someone taken action on them.most gun shot homicides involve-both as perpetrator and as victim-those who cannot legally own firearms. Few gun crimes are committed by those who would be impacted by additional firearms laws. Gun banners and gun restrictionists spend almost all their efforts trying to harass the people who cause very little gun crime
LOL, gee, a "we need more gun laws" group saying we don't have enough laws. Imagine my surprise.For your reading
States with Weak Gun Laws and Higher Gun Ownership Lead Nation in Gun Deaths, New Data for 2014 Confirms | Violence Policy Center
Commence with the attacks. LOL
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