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Interesting. I know hostesses at clubs manipulate rich guys, like Tiger Woods mistress. I suppose they can really mess things up for a man if they get their hooks in them. This relationship is probably based on this woman manipulating Paddock for money. She doesn't seem to have a job anymore but spends a lot of cash based on her Facebook pages. Now it's all over, she must be really devastated.
Wait for few more days. She may even be cousin of Kim or Duterte..
When the 2nd amendment was written guns were muzzle loaders that, in the hands of an expert, could fire a ball every 15 - 20 seconds. A rifle was accurate to 400 - 500 yards max. Muskets were semi-accurate up to 50 yards or so.
Does anyone know what the Founding Fathers would have thought about creating a right to bear arms that can fire hundreds of rounds a minute and fire over 1200 yards? I'm not a lawyer but original intent might indicate that they were thinking of the arms of their time. They couldn't have conceived of todays weapons nor who should have the right to bear them.
It's already been decided people have a right to bear arms. What kind of arms? Not all obviously. Billionaires can't buy out of service nuclear subs, I assume. You don't see Abrams tanks out during hunting season. Not to mention F-18s. Some limits on bearing arms are in effect presumably. Why not extend them to weapons of the kind used in this massacre?
My own opinion is that wanting to own a firearm of this type is enough evidence of mental instability to disqualify a person from having one. That goes for all these guns that look like military weapons, especially those that can be converted to automatic fire.
There is no telling when someone will "crack" and psychologists are no better at identifying likely crackers than the common man. Removing these arms is the only way to prevent or at least minimize future massacres.
Well how do you eliminate the black market? You now have 3D printers that give people the ability to manufacturer their own guns or modify weapons. And the internet makes it easier than ever before to buy and sell on a black market.
I agree that these type of weapons should only be in the hands of law enforcement or military. There is no valid reason or argument for a citizen needing to find hundreds of rounds per minute. That is a mass murder machine. The guy that committed the Mcdonald massacre had an uzi. No one could rush and jump him because he would just spray them down with bullets. If he only had a single shot weapon then they had a chance.
I already did: Chicago. Some of the most restrictive ant-gun laws in the US. And what happens EVERY weekend in Chicago?
And guess who's wielding those guns and are shooting/killing others? Law-abiding citizens? No. Felons. Criminals. You can pass whatever law you want and it WON'T change a thing. CRIMINALS DON'T OBEY LAWS.
Ok, first off there are multiple levels of protective vests. Some are kevlar, some are ceramic plates or a combination of metal and weave etc.
Next, bullet composition is one deciding factor a bullet can pierce an object, the other is simply energy. Almost any firearm can go through armor depending on the composition.
Last, there are billions of old FMJ ammo out there and it would be for all practical reasons useless to even attempt to reel it in. Then there is reloading, no way to regulate that at this point in history.
Lets say your kid is a shop lifter. You say you can't stop him. You say He has learned how to do it and there are too many stores.
I know a few guys with weapons that would never pass a Psychological test to own a gun.
There is though, moving forward. Don't sell bullets that are made specifically for piercing kevlar.
Why? You can make them from billet steel. Thus my reloading comment. You can cut hardened steel and either mold or grind it down to make boolits. Cast boolits are easy to make.
People have been making their own bullets since gun powder.
you cannot prevent them, you take away guns, they'll use car bombs, etc....where there is a will there is a way....
quick fixes do not work....
ASSUMPTIONS without being rational. Sure wouldn't be bad to start limiting how nuts can get to us. The govt has made it very hard to get explosives and that is working very well.
It's a person's emotional problem, not a gun problem.
If guns were the problem, the 9/11 hijackers would have gunned down people in the twin towers instead of flying planes into them. If guns were the problem, terrorists wouldn't be renting trucks and driving them into crowds in Europe. If guns were the problem, terrorists wouldn't be attacking crowds with knives. If guns were the problem, terrorists would not be committing acid attacks. If guns were the problem, the sarin gas attack wouldn't have happened in Japan.
What do all those have in common?
Hint: NOT the means of the attack.
Think rationally. Don't succumb to irrational emotions.
Tell that to your Republican congress!
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The American Health Care Act, which passed the House in early May and will soon be debated in some form in the Senate, will mark a major shift in national policy for opioid treatment, as well as for mental health, behavioral health, and substance abuse across the board. And it would come just after the Affordable Care Act began to create the first semblance of a true national safety net for those health issues.
Beyond providing massive expansions in health coverage via Medicaid and subsidized private insurance, the Affordable Care Act also expanded previous laws that helped ensure mental-health services for those people with coverage.
Meanwhile be very careful where you go because there are plenty of people out there right now, with weapons of mass destruction, itching to follow in the footsteps of Stephen Paddock.
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