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Takes about $20 and 5 minutes to put sights on an AR. Or just buy one that has sights on it. They do sell them that way.
I was being sarcastic to annoy the anti gunners that based on those 2 pictures the 2 guns had the same capabilities but the mini14 was more dangerous since it has sights.
If the issue is second amendment self-defense, then why don’t we invent a smart gun for civilians that uses GPS and camera capabilities to only fire bullets when the trigger is pulled and the aim is on someone who is also in possession of a gun?
So this would be a true self-defense weapon where the gun specifically will fire only on aggressors and automatically not allow any firings on anyone else. This could be a gun for the home. It could also have the capability to fire as normal but only for a separate cartridge where the bullets are non-fatal such as bibi gun bullets which would be a tool for scaring perpetrators and causing minor injury without causing death.
Why not just install precrime like in Minority Report lol.
If the issue is second amendment self-defense, then why don’t we invent a smart gun for civilians that uses GPS and camera capabilities to only fire bullets when the trigger is pulled and the aim is on someone who is also in possession of a gun?
So this would be a true self-defense weapon where the gun specifically will fire only on aggressors and automatically not allow any firings on anyone else. This could be a gun for the home. It could also have the capability to fire as normal but only for a separate cartridge where the bullets are non-fatal such as bibi gun bullets which would be a tool for scaring perpetrators and causing minor injury without causing death.
1. so if a big guy is coming at me with an axe, it wont shoot???....nope
2. so shoot to maim, but not to kill..... sounds like a law suit waiting to happen
1. A bat will not go through the wall and kill a neighbor. I have a friend whose daughter was killed by her husband when he was cleaning his pistol and forgot there was a round in the chamber.
2. McDonald v. IL turned on home self-defense with a pistol but a coach gun may be better and was already legal. SCOTUS and the city's lawyers not being that familiar with guns, they did not bring that fact up. A shotgun is much safer bu harder to bring to bear on a target indoors.
3. A dog is a great early-warning system. Can you imagine what the result is if you shoot someone in your house? I've shot deer and the result is not pretty.
We could rationalize outlawing sunshine, due to the potential for skin cancer, but I think most people would find that ridiculous, if not at least unwise.
But here’s the issue with these many rationalizations …. more often than not these days, they are based on lies. And a great example of this is regarding the new narratives being constructed out of whole cloth regarding gun violence that are outright lies.
One of the most recent examples is the new list of lies about children victims of guns. Now, the claim is that more kids die from gunshot wounds, than from cancer, or car accidents or accidental drowning… etc. And it all comes in the waves of lies by the same usual suspects, and verified by those gatekeepers of the truth, like politifact, fact-check org, Snopes, and the many other con artist establishment liars that will insist that up is really down.
The truth is … and it was not very long ago that this fact had not yet fallen victim to the fact-checker censors at the Ministry of Truth …. but kids were far more likely to accidentally die from drowning in a pool or bathtub than to die from a gunshot. And it’s still true, but a truth which is inconvenient to the narrative, so it has become false, by decree, not actual facts.
This is precisely why we cannot allow the criminal liars to turn “Shall not be infringed” into “must be infringed to save the children”. Because these people are agenda driven liars who will say anything to further their agenda.
And if this reality has managed to escape your notice, I suggest the cure is simply to open your eyes.
One of my notable traits is my audacity......what would stop me?
If I am defending my life in my house, I will use anything for that purpose. If it means tipping one of my curio cabinets, with all its precious memories, down on someone......you better believe it.
I don’t think a curio cabinet would be an effective strategy against armed gang bangers covered in MS13 tattoos. But any act of self defense is better than none, so I applaud your fighting spirit!
However, your odds of surviving such a situation would improve dramatically with the assistance of a 9mm, 45 cal, or a good 6 shot pump action. Just the eerie sound of racking a shotgun in the quiet of night is often enough to encourage a burglar to change his mind, and look for an escape quickly.
I absolutely agree, but don't hold your breath. Addressing one of the real root causes will hurt some feelings and if politicians started talking about it, their careers would be over. No one wants to hear the truth, it seems.
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I'm a huge gun advocate. I'm huge gun rights supporter.
We need to have an honest discussion about hard topics that a lot of people won't want to get to the bottom of. People, politicians and media need to stop making this political. It won't get anywhere where people just default to their political views.
We need to understand and treat the disease not the symptoms.
Guns aren't the problem. This country has been swimming in guns from before it was founded. Something has changed recently where these events are now too frequent.
We need to take an honest look into topics like;
Age of maturity, decision making, responsibility, accountability
The role of father's and dad's, a nuclear family, having a mom being attentive and available to raising children and how feminism has impacted children's environments
The decreasing religiousness and spirituality of this country and the loss of morality
The effect of covid lockdown and isolation socially and via social media in an increasing virtual world.
The affect of the media making people outraged or feeling hopeless
The affect of social media negativity and algorithms feeding people non stop garbage warping their sense of reality.
Violent videogames, movies etc
Those are just a few topics to start talking about. That's where this conversation needs to start and end. It has nothing to do with AR15s, body armor, standard capacity magazines. That's all crap and just a political power grab that isn't interested in solving the problem.
We need to identify and stop the thought process of "I'm going to go kill elementary students, commit a mass murder, etc..." Before that thought ever occurs. It should NEVER occur ever. Preventing someone from getting to that thought process is how you stop mass shootings.
I can't like this quote enough. All responsible gun owners want to keep the guns out of the hands of people who use them to hurt innocent people, children especially.
Talking about how to do that is secondary to getting at the root cause. I would second all of the things you have listed. They have a material affect in creating killers. I would also add the depravity of Hollywood. Why are family oriented sitcoms a thing of the past? I'm not a sanctimonious person, but the cultural rot in our society is bearing fruit.
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