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Well one thing for sure making guns illegal will only hurt the ones(legal) who need them to protect themselves against the illegal ones. It is a vicious cycle and too late to do anything about it other than to dish out severe punishment for those who commit a crime with a gun. And I mean severe! By the way, making it harder for the good guys to get guns will do nothing, most of those (illegal)guns are stolen.
Didn't help an single person in that grocery store, did it?
So many guns and so easy to get. A whacko can legally buy a semi-auto rifle and within three days, can shoot up a Walmart, theater, school, nightclub, or grocery store.
AR-15 or semi auto is not magically more lethal than say a shotgun. Firepower only matters when someone is shooting back at you, these murderers target people and places where most people can't or won't fight back.
However when does firepower like from a AR-15 matter? when you are lone storekeeper being attacked by a ANTIFA mob and the cops are nowhere to be seen.
I'll give an explanation a whirl because I knew exactly what that poster meant.
There are 80-something year old women and children (and people in between) who lives in Boulder, Colorado, who normally shop at the grocery store where 10 people were gunned down and killed. I'm sure there were some there at the time. It's beyond traumatic to have a senseless and violent event like that happen, particularly in a place that everybody goes to and is pretty low key. This past year has been stressful enough and now this!
Going to the grocery store isn't exactly one of those situations that people say "well, they shouldn't have put themselves in that situation to begin with!" I mean, it's not like they were trying to score a crack rock at 3 in the morning in some sketchy drug house. They were there to buy bread, and milk, and balloons for their kid's sixth birthday party, and then this senseless BS happens. I think that would shake somebody up, right?
So many guns and so easy to get. A whacko can legally buy a semi-auto rifle and within three days, can shoot up a Walmart, theater, school, nightclub, or grocery store.
He can also buy a car even more easily and quickly, drive down a street with a crowded sidewalk, and kill even more people with that. A lot more people get killed by cars than with a so-called "assault weapon".
But paranoid no-minds concentrate their attention on the (far fewer) people killed by so-called "assault weapons".
So many guns and so easy to get. A whacko can legally buy a semi-auto rifle and within three days, can shoot up a Walmart, theater, school, nightclub, or grocery store.
American gangsters were rocking around Tommy fully automatic submachine guns and BARs in the 20s and 30s. Today guns like that are illegal to own for the average citizens with some exceptions.
There was no NCIC or FBI III to run someone background before weapon purchase in the 20s or 30s.
So what’s the difference between 100 years ago and now?
He can also buy a car even more easily and quickly, drive down a street with a crowded sidewalk, and kill even more people with that. A lot more people get killed by cars than with a so-called "assault weapon".
But paranoid no-minds concentrate their attention on the (far fewer) people killed by so-called "assault weapons".
I think murderers who kill people by whatever means are bad people and shouldn't be walking around free in society. Hopefully you agree?
We're going to need to keep our guns. He's allowing terrorists into the country. Does he not want us to defend ourselves? What about all the rioting and burning that will go as they push their racial agenda on us. It sounds like he wants everyone to be helpless. No thank you Mr. Corrupt man. No will do!!
Of course they don't want you to defend yourself. Have you not figured out that yet?
I'll give it explaining that a whirl because I knew exactly what that poster meant.
There are 80-something year old women and children (and people in between) who lives in Boulder, Colorado, who normally shop at the grocery store where 10 people were gunned down and killed. I'm sure there were some there at the time. It's beyond traumatic to have a senseless and violent event like that happen, particularly in a place that everybody goes to and is pretty low key. This past year has been stressful enough and now this!
Going to the grocery store isn't exactly one of those situations that people say "well, they shouldn't have put themselves in that situation to begin with!" I mean, it's not like they were trying to score a crack rock at 3 in the morning in some sketchy drug house. They were there to buy bread, and milk, and balloons for their kid's sixth birthday party, and then this senseless BS happens. I think that would shake somebody up, right?
Gun ownership is not new in America.
Let me repeat one more time just to make sure you get it through your head, ok? GUN OWNERSHIP IS NOT NEW IN AMERICA.
So what is the difference between what happened in Boulder Colorado yesterday and 100 years ago? What changed?
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By the way, making it harder for the good guys to get guns will do nothing, most of those (illegal)guns are stolen.
