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Rack a 1911 in the dark? Someone is going to crush Usain Bolt's 100 record.
The sound my Ithaca model 51 Feather light makes when you push the release leaves zero doubt about the next sound you might hear.
Is that relevant? Is life really that much different in the US that no lessons can be learnt from other 1st world countries around the globe? Or even from mistakes in that past within your own country?
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How was she going to defend herself from 2 grown men with intentions of, at the bare minimum theft ?
3 outta 4 ain't bad.
90 yards.
Problem is, for everyone of those stories there is probably 2 or 3 stories of families who had they not had the gun in their house, there young child would still be alive.
Its am emotive topic because we're talking about peoples lives, and the genies out of the bottle as far as guns already in the public domain in America.
Both my kids survived me having guns in the house too, as did I with my Dad having guns.
Take away the allure, and mystery. Teach proper use. No problems.
I think as a whole Australians are pretty proud of how our country responded to it’s biggest mass shooting back in 1996, and we feel we can offer an opinion on what worked for our country.
These incidents get a lot of media attention outside of the US also.
It’s not that strange for people to have an opinion on foreign matters....Americans do the same.
https://youtu.be/3TCButSbOZ0
Pit Row
This shit gets so over-blown. Have guns? Cool, but nobody needs 30 of them. and nobody needs semi/full auto anything.
In my opinion, and it’s ok to have an opinion.
Most of the time they do not, certainly not a semi automatic rifle.
A kid like that prick in Sandy Hook is not going to go down to a dodgy part of town and start chatting to gangsters.
In Australia apparently semi autos on the black market cost over 20k. And I would have no chance of finding someone who could sell me one.
Granted I understand with the amount of guns in the community in the US it would take a very long time to get to that point.
But it would be tragic if we are having this same argument in 50 years wondering ‘if only we did something in 2019’
I accept that a self loader is faster than a manual action - but if a mass shooter (and forgive me for sounding flippant over something so utterly horrendous) is left picking off people that aren't shooting back, then they're still going to do a tremendous amount of damage regardless of what they use. You're still going to end up with the same frequency of mass shootings and a likely casualty list in double figures. In England in 2010 a shooter killed 12 people using a .22 bolt action and double barrelled shotgun - two of the least dangerous firearms available in the wrong hands.
Lever action rifles, bolt action rifles, straight pulls, revolvers etc can all be cycled and reloaded amazingly fast with a degree of practice. So it may make a difference, it may be worth trying, idk. But I very much doubt it personally. And I certainly don't think it'd make anything like the difference of putting the same energy into a better vetting system. Better to keep what you've left legal out of the wrong hands to begin with. And then there's tackling the issues of mental health in males especially with Men and boys predominantly being the ones doing this. There must be a reason for that worth investigating...
Lastly, Australia has been mentioned a lot. Australia and the UK both implemented VERY good vetting processes and they both, as a result, have very low instances of gun crime, particularly via legal ownership. However that has almost nothing to do with what they've banned - in fact the UK mainland has banned significantly less than Australia, yet has even less gun crime... The bans are good window dressing for a general public that largely know little to nothing about guns or gun ownership, but the real reason for low gun crime will always lie first and foremost in a thorough vetting system.
Would the implementation of a strict vetting process be "regulation of militia" or "infringement" of a right?
Playing devil's advocate here.
I would think that all of this happened because he didn't want to go away for being a felon in possession of a firearm. I originally heard that there were ten total victims caught in the cross fire, but haven't been able to confirm it.
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