Gun Control Reform Activism
In reply to the discussion: The "wouldn't have prevented" gambit on gun-safety laws [View all]jimmy the one
(2,720 posts)spin: It remains my opinion based on my experience that it was a fair representation of how fast magazines can be changed and how fast semi-auto firearms can be fired by people who have some experience and practice.
How much experience lanza have? you posted in one scene propagunda where a trained shooter plastered a stationary target which wasn't moving or shooting back, nor was it screaming in terror back at him. The film presented a highly trained shooter apparently trying to get into guiness record book for fast switching guns or clips, which 'could' also be similar to a mass shooter in real life, but more likely not as trained & more prone to average fire & murphy's law. And find out tiger woods score if the crowd was able to start screaming & running around yelling all the while he's golfing.
I am a gun rights supporter but I feel that this video is realistic and not necessarily positive for the gun rights group. If anything, it may cause some gun control advocates to back banning the civilian ownership of all firearms.
To me it demonstrated MORE GUNS MORE LIES.
I posted the video for those who have little experience with firearms as many seem to believe that limiting magazine size would greatly restrict a deranged person's ability to kill a large number of people with a firearm.
Didn't work ON THIS FORUM. Nobody here should believe what spin is spinning in the sentence above. Limiting magazine/clip size would indeed HINDER & in some cases GREATLY RESTRICT a deranged person's ability to kill a large number of people with a gun. Spin takes the extreme case of someone getting 'optimum results' & applying it to the general gunnut population - and as if the ban was expected to be an absolute solution.
I do support gun control measures that would help to reduce the problem such as universal background checks, stronger enforcement of existing gun laws and steeper penalties for those caught engaging in the straw purchase..
Obviously our mental health care system has problems...
We should reexamine of our War on Drugs which we lost years ago...
Although I support gun rights I abhor gun violence...
If only honest and responsible citizens were allowed to own firearms, we still would have gun violence but it would be reduced considerably...
YAWN.
What really distresses me is that I feel we had an excellent chance to pass meaningful and effective gun laws in this nation but some who overreached for another AWB effectively poisoned the water.
BULLCRAP. Take your 2nd Amendment Mythology onto RKBA. We didn't poison the water, the nra threatened to poison republican legislators if they threatened to tamper with nra's cash cows & profit margin.
Gun violence in our nation is now approaching an all time low but few people realize this.
Bullcrap takeII, although you couch it with 'approaching' which is duplicitous. Violent crime rate today is 2.5 times more than in early 60's.