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Originally Posted by TreeBeard
I would immediately put a $1,000 per bullet tax on any gun or rifle used in any mass shooting in the past year. I guess, that is, if you care for innocent lives.
Dumbest thing on this thread so far. Why just this year and not other years? Or don't innocent lives count from two years ago. Three years ago?
So, in reality, how likely am I, or anyone, to be killed in a "mass shooting" type of scenario? Why should I live in fear, and be paranoid. I am much more likely to be killed, or injured driving on the highway at 70 MPH, or faster, inches away from cars, SUV's, and tractor trailers with their drivers texting, eating, talking on the phone, or playing with their multi function display.
The problem:
NRA lobbyists! Congress & the Senate have been bought and paid for. And POTUS will only text stupid remarks.
It would appear there is no change in the near future of America.
It's like it's Groundhog Day: another massacre, another littany of excuses why we can't do anything about it, much less even have a real debate about where we are as a society and what would have to change. A bunch of false, self-servingly reductive logic like "don't 'politicize' the tragedy", and "we can't have laws because someone will break them" - oh, but the victims' families have our "thoughts and prayers." Too bad, so sad!
Meanwhile, you have a President who basically made out with the NRA to get elected and a Congress looking at roll-back legislation to make it easier to acquire silencers and armor-piercing bullets - because God forbid we can't all access those! The Founding Fathers would be rolling over in their graves.
Unless you're willing to take an honest look at where we are as a society and consider some changes, you're part of the problem.. And don't DARE call yourself a Christian.
So just take your ****ty "thoughts and prayers" and shove 'em. They mean nothing. You may as well have pulled the trigger.
I'm under no illusions that anything here will ever change; these massacres are here to stay, as American as apple pie. No doubt the next guy in a few months will be up to the task of outdoing his predecessors. Thanks to Congress's impending roll back of what gun legislation there is, it will only help raise the bar.
See you again at 100.
Rant much? I have a machinegun for sale. Interested?
How about prayer? Seems to be working for the Republicans.
I don't pray... so much for the whole religious right thing...
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Originally Posted by metalmancpa
Come on. I think you know what I mean - multiple fires with a single trigger pull is what I consider semi-automatic. One shot per one pull is not IMO, despite what a definition might say. We can be logical about this.
That moment. When you try to define a semi auto... as a full auto...
Should research the implement you seek to abolish... otherwise you start sounding silly and ill prepared
It's like it's Groundhog Day: another massacre, another littany of excuses why we can't do anything about it, much less even have a real debate about where we are as a society and what would have to change. A bunch of false, self-servingly reductive logic like "don't 'politicize' the tragedy", and "we can't have laws because someone will break them" - oh, but the victims' families have our "thoughts and prayers." Too bad, so sad!
Meanwhile, you have a President who basically made out with the NRA to get elected and a Congress looking at roll-back legislation to make it easier to acquire silencers and armor-piercing bullets - because God forbid we can't all access those! The Founding Fathers would be rolling over in their graves.
Unless you're willing to take an honest look at where we are as a society and consider some changes, you're part of the problem.. And don't DARE call yourself a Christian.
So just take your ****ty "thoughts and prayers" and shove 'em. They mean nothing. You may as well have pulled the trigger.
I'm under no illusions that anything here will ever change; these massacres are here to stay, as American as apple pie. No doubt the next guy in a few months will be up to the task of outdoing his predecessors. Thanks to Congress's impending roll back of what gun legislation there is, it will only help raise the bar.
See you again at 100.
I am the NRA and you will never take my guns from me because I have done nothing wrong. You can enjoy your favorite freedoms and I will enjoy mine.
Basically there needs to be a restriction on the number of guns you can have, point blank. Who the **** needed 40 plus guns in this day and age that's not a member of a military outfit?
And that is your opinion. You are free to have that.
I’m beginning to think that this issue is no longer simply about the right to bear arms. When some crazy person has the ability to shoot an arsenal of automatic weapons randomly at tens of thousands of helpless people, it is not about gun rights. It is an act of war.
When American citizens no longer feel secure to go out and live their lives in a free society, then we have a National Security issue on our hands.
Basically there needs to be a restriction on the number of guns you can have, point blank. Who the **** needed 40 plus guns in this day and age that's not a member of a military outfit?
Who needs a 5000 square foot home?
A 600 HP car?
A spare tire?
More than one fire extinguisher?
A cup full of pens versus one on your desk?
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