Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Just looking for input. [View all]discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,578 posts)Alas, time wasted. I found no children killed by firearms but I gave up after 5 - 10 minutes.
I saw one "picture of kid deaths in DC". A baby was beaten to death.
Where possible many groups overflow with a message of fear.
> I get tired of explaining to people that banning "assault weapons" does nothing since functionally equivalent firearms are readily available.
> I then become exasperated when they just expand their wild demands to say all guns equivalent to an assault weapon need to be banned.
> The utterly absurd overreach of the Massachusetts AG and the dementia inspired AWB is beyond logic since that state hadn't had a murder using anything might even qualify for the ban for months to years prior to her grandstanding announcement.
What a lot of gun "control" is about today is a solution in search of problem which doesn't exist.
What's really fascinating is that none of these folks shows embarrassment.
Then again, when confronted about his voiced concern over the possibility Guam capsizing, Congressman Hank Johnson explained, with no embarrassment, that he was just making a joke in that hearing:
It seems that no matter what bizarreness some public figures spout off with, embarrassment is entirely optional.