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I don't think it should be as easy as it is to purchase guns without a thorough background check which includes a mental health check (if you're taking crazy meds you shouldn't be armed), and the applicant has to have a certain amount of hours being trained to use the guns he/she is purchasing and pass a proficiency/qualification test getting a certain amount of bullets on target. Personally, I don't see why anyone should own bump stocks, 30+ round magazines, or weapons that can be fired on fully automatic.
That said, a proficient shooter can do just as much killing with a Glock 40 cal. (Aurora CO shooter--killed 12 injured 70), or a 7-round pump action shotgun and a sling bag full of shells. He/she could inflict serious casualties with a 5-round snub nosed .38 and a fanny pack full of speed loaders if he's practiced enough. In China and Japan, there were attacks where dozens of victims were killed by a knife wielding assailant.
But, what is going on here is more of a cultural attack on gun owners. The media and Democrats look to gun owners in America as a significant voting demographic for Republicans. They want to weaken or eliminate that demographic by eliminating their guns. Of course, Democrats had an opportunity to do just that when they had the White House, Senate and House of Reps for two years during Obama's presidency, and they did nothing! So how serious are they about gun legislation when the only time you hear from them is when there is a mass shooting that they can exploit? Again, I reach back to inner city gun violence as a prime example of the deafening silence by the left when it comes to guns. It's not apples and oranges.
I'm going to drop a statistic on you...from 2014 - 2017 56,000 Americans were killed by guns (over the course of four years). In 2016 (just one year), 64,000 Americans died of opiate addiction. But supposedly, drugs are a "victimless" choice people make because it only harms the user. Which couldn't be more wrong.
The NRA lobbies for Republicans and about 12% of their money to Democrats as well, Big Pharma lobbies heavily for Democrats and Republicans...who has more blood on their hands? NRA or Big Pharma?
Approx 15K gun deaths to 60K drug deaths annually. Where is the outrage on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NYT, WAPO over Big Pharma? Where is the 24/7 news coverage on an epidemic that has killed more Americans in one year than the war in Vietnam in ten years?
That said, a proficient shooter can do just as much killing with a Glock 40 cal. (Aurora CO shooter--killed 12 injured 70), or a 7-round pump action shotgun and a sling bag full of shells. He/she could inflict serious casualties with a 5-round snub nosed .38 and a fanny pack full of speed loaders if he's practiced enough. In China and Japan, there were attacks where dozens of victims were killed by a knife wielding assailant.
But, what is going on here is more of a cultural attack on gun owners. The media and Democrats look to gun owners in America as a significant voting demographic for Republicans. They want to weaken or eliminate that demographic by eliminating their guns. Of course, Democrats had an opportunity to do just that when they had the White House, Senate and House of Reps for two years during Obama's presidency, and they did nothing! So how serious are they about gun legislation when the only time you hear from them is when there is a mass shooting that they can exploit? Again, I reach back to inner city gun violence as a prime example of the deafening silence by the left when it comes to guns. It's not apples and oranges.
I'm going to drop a statistic on you...from 2014 - 2017 56,000 Americans were killed by guns (over the course of four years). In 2016 (just one year), 64,000 Americans died of opiate addiction. But supposedly, drugs are a "victimless" choice people make because it only harms the user. Which couldn't be more wrong.
The NRA lobbies for Republicans and about 12% of their money to Democrats as well, Big Pharma lobbies heavily for Democrats and Republicans...who has more blood on their hands? NRA or Big Pharma?
Approx 15K gun deaths to 60K drug deaths annually. Where is the outrage on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NYT, WAPO over Big Pharma? Where is the 24/7 news coverage on an epidemic that has killed more Americans in one year than the war in Vietnam in ten years?
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