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Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

(6,777 posts)

5. What's your point?

Reply to Paladin (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 30, 2019, 05:31 PM

Jul 2019

If you want new legislation, you need a factual base on which to construct it. Everybody is screaming "assault weapons ban." That wouldn't have done anything in this instance. He killed three people. It doesn't take an "assault weapon" to do that.

Let's all get together and hate gun owners. I'm sure that'll help.

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California has strict gun laws. Here's how the Gilroy gunman evaded them [View all] Eugene Jul 2019 OP

Apparently the firearm was an SKS Throck Jul 2019 #1

Right. Straw Man Jul 2019 #2

Why don't you send that information to the families of the Gilroy dead and wounded? Paladin Jul 2019 #4

What's your point? Straw Man Jul 2019 #5

Moral panic-mongers disdain factual information that messes up their screeds. friendly_iconoclast Aug 2019 #6

+1 jpak Aug 2019 #7

-2 Straw Man Aug 2019 #8

Any semi-auto pistol or long gun that accepts a clip (and I will use that term) - ban them jpak Aug 2019 #9

Great sarisataka Aug 2019 #10

Go to Jail - Directly to Jail jpak Aug 2019 #11

A good quote for you: discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2019 #12

Don't press your luck jpak Aug 2019 #13

I wouldn't think of it as almost all of my luck is bad discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2019 #14

So tube-fed and belt-fed are OK? Thanks. Straw Man Aug 2019 #15

Irony is wonderful discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2019 #16

Add them to the list jpak Aug 2019 #17

I submit to you ... Straw Man Aug 2019 #18

Then ban the useless shit. jpak Aug 2019 #19

You could actually save yourself some verbiage ... Straw Man Aug 2019 #20

SKS's that can accept AK-47 magzines are banned in California. Kaleva Aug 2019 #21

Right and wrong. Straw Man Aug 2019 #22

Okay. Thanks for the correction! Kaleva Aug 2019 #23

I heard it was a WASR-10 derby378 Jul 2019 #3