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11-15-2017, 05:00 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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Originally Posted by Got Stripers
Handguns are likely never going to be banned, nor do I think they need to be, but the laws in states making it easy to pick them up and bring them to chicago or NYC where individuals can't meet muster need to be tightened up.
The only way that can be tightened up is to ban handguns in every state. Still would leave smuggling from other countries.
Health care ties into all of this, because the suicide rates could come down if the proper care was available and the drug issue goes hand in hand as well.
Those issues are their own, and controlling guns does not heal mental health or stop drug abuse.
The assault rifle discussion is logical, as it's the only likely ban that could even be considered; although I'm guessing the lobbying power of the NRA will make even that a long shot.
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As I said, the AR type with its more potent emotional reaction is the next logical step down from fully automatic to semi-automatic. After that is accomplished, and the number of gun deaths is barely reduced, what's next? |
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11-15-2017, 05:30 PM
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Location: Somerset MA
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All illegal guns were once legal.. lost or stolen or bought by someone else.... the issue is volume . It's not hard to get a gun in any state
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11-15-2017, 10:21 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Upper Bucks County PA
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Originally Posted by detbuch
As I said, the AR type with its more potent emotional reaction is the next logical step down from fully automatic to semi-automatic. After that is accomplished, and the number of gun deaths is barely reduced, what's next?
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The program has been in continuous operation for 3 decades.
"Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons."
Josh Sugarmann, Assault Weapons and Accessories in America, 1988
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You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you are capable of great violence.
If you are incapable of violence, you are not peaceful, you are just harmless.
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