After the Vegas slaughter, the House prepares to vote on a bill easing access to ammo-piercing bull

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Another Bloody Morning in America, With More Moments of Silence To Come


https://www.thedailybeast.com/another-bloody-morning-in-america-with-more-moments-of-silence-to-come

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‘Protection'
After the Vegas slaughter, the House prepares to vote on a bill easing access to ammo-piercing bullets and silencers.

10.02.17 2:09 PM ET

Once again, it was morning in America. A morning that almost exclusively occurs in America, as we woke up yet again to the unmitigated horror of the unhinged enjoying kid-in-a-candy-store access to weapons of mass murder. Something no other high-income country is willing to endure.

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You see, gun sales have been down as the NRA has gained a Trump but lost a trump card in the form of scaring white Americans that the bad black President will come marching door to door to confiscate their guns—.............................................................

Back in the days before so-called scholars and charlatans read into "well-regulated militia" the ability to carry anything short of a bazooka into your kid's pre-school for protection, we had a Congress that looked at guns they way one would if you were trying to serve the interests of your constituents. So with a rash of gangland violence during Prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s (over 300 law enforcement officers were killed in one year in the early 1930s), Congress passed The National Firearms Act, which successfully regulated silencers the way all guns should be regulated; Background checks, registration, finger printing. You know, nutty stuff for firearm add-ons that make it easier to kill innocent people.

This made them more expensive and risky to acquire for felons, which of course was the goal in the first place. But if you're the NRA, and killers of various stripes are labeled as market segmentation, you can see the same possibilities in 300 million American guns mostly lacking silencers that you saw in pushing concealed carry laws that convinced housewives to stick handguns in their purses for "protection."



So they invented a supposed reason for this new need—with Donald Trump Jr. spearheading that push—which is that hunters have to protect their hearing. Apparently, nobody's told the NRA about these things called "earplugs." Otherwise, if possessing a weapon that fires bullets and (theoretically) a somewhat higher IQ than an animal is so negligent an advantage you need a silencer too, you're probably a pretty shitty hunter and may want to take up a new hobby.

But wait, there’s more: Not satisfied with simply allowing murderers to murder in a cone of silence, in the very same bill the NRA and their GOP-congressional handmaidens are attempting to legalize the sale of armor-piercing bullets, so long as those are designed for “sporting purposes.” You know for the bunnies sporting kevlar.

Also, worth a mention, the NRA is pushing legislation for a terrible idea known as concealed-carry reciprocity, which I debated in the pages of The Daily Caller with NRA top-lobbyist Chris Cox in the past. This bill would force states with actual requirements beyond a heartbeat (and this would seem to be negotiable) for a concealed carry-license, to recognize licenses issued by other states where every gun is sacred and domestic battery is merely a lifestyle choice. ...................

[bagelsforbreakfast]

1. will this INSANITY never end? n/m

[Skittles]

2. gun humping cowards have WON

mass murders are SOP in America now

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3. Unbelievable...