not caring about something until it's "in your back yard" is pretty hypocritical, to me
Well some of that can be explained by ignorance right?
A typical AR-15 bullet leaves the barrel traveling almost three times faster than, and imparting more than three times the energy of, a typical 9mm bullet from a handgun.
I assume he's talking about the Supreme Court decision back in '05, in which they decided the police don't have a constitutional duty to protect anyone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/p...ot-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html
when you say conservatives you mean dems?
Mass casualty events are a tiny fraction of homicide by gun. Successful prediction and subsequent action to prevent low baserate events is doomed to failure.
I think there is some merit in this, but that's still a cop-out. I don't think these 'lone wolf' types could gain the back-channel access required to attain assault weapons if they're outlawed. I understand that most homicides by gun are in the single digits, but that's not shouldn't prevent us from discussing mass-cal as a separate issue. It's best to look at historical trends with spree killings rather set it against gun violence in general as they both have different motives. The figures clearly suggest that mass-cal events are occurring at an accelerated rate with larger body-counts. Reducing the casualty-producing qualities available to the public has the potential to lessen the scale of these attacks imo.
I think there is some merit in this, but that's still a cop-out. I don't think these 'lone wolf' types could gain the back-channel access required to attain assault weapons if they're outlawed. I understand that most homicides by gun are in the single digits, but that's not shouldn't prevent us from discussing mass-cal as a separate issue. It's best to look at historical trends with spree killings rather set it against gun violence in general as they both have different motives. The figures clearly suggest that mass-cal events are occurring at an accelerated rate with larger body-counts. Reducing the casualty-producing qualities available to the public has the potential to lessen the scale of these attacks imo.
I just don't understand how conservatives are pushing for more integrating databases and tighter background checks when they are always the first to pinpoint just how incompetent and ineffective these sort of gov't programs are in other contexts.They constantly use loopholes to dismiss any bill that outright bans semi-automatic weapons, but fails to see the glaring hypocrisy of deferring to the systems that also are vulnerable to loopholes. It's such a fucking copout.
Are you suggesting that gun availability is the cause behind the acceleration in mass shootings?
You can ask why the GOP favors that, but you could also ask why the DNC favors "common sense" regulation usually in the same form, with just a few bump stock or magazine capacity laws attached. The answer is that gun rights are one of the most contentious, single-item policies that voters care about. The NRA is an extremely powerful lobby, not because of contributions from gun manufacturers (which help of course) but because of the millions of die-hard gun owners that vote Republican along that one issue. I personally vote straight-ticket Republican on local representatives because gun rights are the one policy that I know they'll defend, because Republicans that are weak on the issue get kicked out on their ass in most states. Republicans tried bargaining in the past for decades and it meant a consistently eroding access to guns, but the line has been drawn hard now and it hopefully isn't going to budge until the DNC takes the Executive and Judiciary back, if not the Legislative as well.
Fuck their suffering tbh, the only reason this story is being treated as a bigger deal than the shootings in Las Vegas and Texas (by both Dems and Reps) is because it involved a bunch of upper class white and Jewish high school kids..