stanc Wrote:Again, not relevant to the issue of preventing mass shootings with assault weapons.
LR1955 Wrote:Guys:I disagree Stan,LR55, dysfunctional type personalities will use what ever is readily available to harm others during a rage of uncontrolled anger. Banning the AR-15 using this reasoning is illogical at best. There are over 250,000 deaths every year in the US because of medical malpractice, yet most people will never hesitate to seek medical help when sick or injured. The good out ways the risk logic. There have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century, yet many people wish to ban the very firearms which could help prevent such disasters. Division of power logic.
Stan is 100% correct when it comes to the capability of a semi automatic firearm that can use a magazine of about any capacity to inflict a huge amount of harm on people in a very short period of time. Absolutely true and unless we as owners of these types of rifles, carbines, and pistols realize this statement is absolutely true, our heads are in the sand. The tool is capable of that type of harm when used by a criminal and or deranged person to commit mayhem and crime. And please, don't go on about how dangerous a knife is compared to one of our AR-S with a C-Mag when it comes to lethality.
What no one here has done is provide any reasonable solutions.
Lets see some reasonable solutions.
LR55
In 2014, there were 248 murders with all types of rifles,"not just the AR type" in the US from the last records we have from the FBI. Considering mass murderers use other types of weapons and means to commit such acts, banning the AR type rifles is going to achieve very little. If the actual point is to protect our kids, we need to step up security in our schools the way we do other areas of our society like airports, federal buildings, political leaders, etc., instead of leaving them as fish in a barrel for malfunctioning psychopaths.