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In reply to the discussion: We must restore the 2nd Amendment to its original intent [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)There's a idea! But it doesn't run through the magical land of make believe.
Guns exist, gun will continue to exist. These lone-wolf terrorists will carry out their asshattery WITH or WITHOUT a rifle with a pistol grip!
Their flowchart of terrorism doesn't include a decision box that says "Do I have an AR-15? If yes, continue to random location and shoot random people. If no, go home and play video games".
Their behavior is not being driven by a particular type of hardware. They will do it regardless. It is not a hardware issue and to hope that some new ban will help is foolishness.
The cold hard fact is that Democrats seem to have as much a fetish for banning scary-looking guns as Republicans have for owning them. Democrats have been wedded to the idea for over 30 years now and it has done NOTHING to help anybody. Nothing. Well, it has made Republicans damn sure that Democrats are "coming for their guns" and they get to use that every two years in their campaigns!
Oh, and it's driven up gun sales, too.
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For a policy position that's suppose to reduce the number of guns in America, it sure is backfiring.
And sometimes problems don't have any effective answer. Lone-wolf terrorism is one of them!