Neither did the gun in that picture. Or any other gun.
You don't need an AR-15 to hunt, you don't need one for self defense, what do you need one for?
It looks 'scary' because it's black and has doodads all over it, but realistically speaking there's no difference between that and any other large game hunting weapon (aka not fowl or squirrel). A barrel change can make it appropriate from anything from a whitetail to a moose or bear, and anything in between (human included, unfortunately).Can people really buy this legally in the US?
No one can claim that thing is for animal hunting.
To protect themselves from the tyrannical government they wholeheartedly endorse?You don't need an AR-15 to hunt, you don't need one for self defense, what do you need one for?
It's a complex question with difficult answers
Regarding forgetting, as a point of discussion & not to be insensitive, but what else are you supposed to do, realistically? I live a couple towns over from Newtown, where that awful shooting took place. When you're not directly involved or affected, what's the next step, over time? And not just that, but there's an endless string of awful events that have happened in our country: Columbine, 9/11, Newtown, Vegas, etc., plus the insane Chicago statistics. It is, unfortunately, commonplace in modern America. So the question is really, what should the answer be? And right now, at least, that's an impossible question to answer.
It looks 'scary' because it's black and has doodads all over it, but realistically speaking there's no difference between that and any other large game hunting weapon (aka not fowl or squirrel). A barrel change can make it appropriate from anything from a whitetail to a moose or bear, and anything in between (human included, unfortunately).
Don't get bent out of shape because male machismo creates a vacuum for 'military-style' guns. This shooter could have done something as devastating (or near enough) with cheap crap from Wal-Mart.
Please note that i'm not advocating for gun violence or anything asinine like that, just pointing out that focusing on a specific weapon type that doesn't launch explosive rounds is fruitless since the way a gun 'looks' has very little bearing on its performance in the arena of killing children. As such, targeting any form of legislation against them specifically is fruitless, feel-good trash legislation.
The gun nutters dream of a war against their own government and its military. Silly fucks think the macho guns are a match for tanks, guided missiles, apache attack choppers, etc... This is not hyperbole, this is their reality.
Now help me understand something. What cheap crap from Walmart would have allowed the Vegas shooter to do what he did? What other than the high capacity 100 round magazines and bump stock modifications would have allowed him to shoot over 600 people from hundreds of yards away?It looks 'scary' because it's black and has doodads all over it, but realistically speaking there's no difference between that and any other large game hunting weapon (aka not fowl or squirrel). A barrel change can make it appropriate from anything from a whitetail to a moose or bear, and anything in between (human included, unfortunately).
Don't get bent out of shape because male machismo creates a vacuum for 'military-style' guns. This shooter could have done something as devastating (or near enough) with cheap crap from Wal-Mart.
Please note that i'm not advocating for gun violence or anything asinine like that, just pointing out that focusing on a specific weapon type that doesn't launch explosive rounds is fruitless since the way a gun 'looks' has very little bearing on its performance in the arena of killing children. As such, targeting any form of legislation against them specifically is fruitless, feel-good trash legislation.
The poor gun. Taking heat just for existing. You think it's taking it personally? Ya think it'll ever recover from the psychological abuse?Neither did the gun in that picture. Or any other gun.
Now help me understand something. What cheap crap from Walmart would have allowed the Vegas shooter to do what he did? What other than the high capacity 100 round magazines and bump stock modifications would have allowed him to shoot over 600 people from hundreds of yards away?
All these other options and yet he still chose 14 AR-15s and 7 AR-10s. Or was that only because they looked scary? Not really a functional, tactical choice?
But then the NRA changed their minds. Or that's the latest I remember hearing on the subject.Speaking of bump stocks...whatever happened to the bump stock ban bill?? Seriously, what happened? Didn't the NRA actually come out in favor of banning bump stocks in the wake of the Vegas shooting? Weren't Republicans working on that bill? It was the hollowest of empty gestures to "do something" about guns...and the bill DISAPPEARED. Seriously, we couldn't even get bump stocks done??
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bumpstock-ban-20180212-story.html
Ok, so let's look at this. Tobacco kills something like 15x as many people as guns. Nothing at all is being done to further reduce that. You guys claim the conversation has been had on tobacco, and stop gaps put in place to reduce smoking. Good, it is still 15x more deadly than guns. If we're willing to live with that and leave it at that, then you can stay hands off my gun rights.
No way to prevent this, says only nation where this regularly happens.
The poor gun. Taking heat just for existing. You think it's taking it personally? Ya think it'll ever recover from the psychological abuse?
Shut up you Fu*king bullies! Guns have feelings too!
LOL, thank you for the laugh!All guns should be gathered together, then set free to roam in some isolated wilderness. We must end their abuse by crazy people.
Connecticut passed some of the toughest gun safety and control laws following Newtown,
http://wnpr.org/post/whats-been-impact-connecticuts-gun-laws-after-sandy-hook
Homicide rates by gun dropped from 92 to 56 in 2016.
CT has one of the lowest death by gun rates in the country.
https://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Connecticut-among-lowest-states-for-gun-deaths-12504426.php
But then again, we can go with thoughts and prayers.
There were 78 murders in 2016 in Connecticut, down from 115 the previous year. That’s the lowest number of murders since 1969. The number of murders fluctuates quite a bit in any given year.
“It's about 250,000 people in our state of 3.7 million inhabitants and so it's a relatively small minority who are law abiding citizens who have guns,” Lawlor said. “And the right to own guns is protected by our state constitution and as long as people act responsibly, they'll be able to enjoy that right for as long as they choose to.”
But gun violence prevention advocates, as they like to be called, might disagree. Ron Pinciaro said while they got most of what they wanted as far as gun legislation, he wanted to go further. “The one thing as far as what we did get that we didn’t get completely was we wanted all assault weapons removed from the state immediately upon passage of the bill,” he said. The problem is that government can’t take property without giving compensation. And, he says, the state certainly wasn’t going to pay for all the guns they’d have to take.
So how do we manage the right to own guns? What about illegal guns?
But most importantly, crazies like this !@#$ won't be able to just run to a store and fulfill his dream of mass murder.
Yeah, but people like Adam Lanza and Stephen Paddock spent a lot of time learning how to use their weapons...they didn't just waltz into Cabella's, buy some gear, and then go on a shooting spree, you know?