Mick Doobie
Maderator
Assault a saltshaker
Ok....ok...yup. Making a point like that is fine. But....I'm pretty sure you get my point.Any weapon can be an ‘assault weapon’
Assault rifle, assault handgun, assault baseball bat, assault machete, assault rock, assault knife, etc.
Ok....ok...yup. Making a point like that is fine. But....I'm pretty sure you get my point.
Mick
I got me an assault chihuahua. He’ll fuck your ankles up.
Them and Pomeranian’sOh yeah. Did you know? Little known fact, of all dog breeds Chihuahuas are the leading cause of little itty bitty puncture wounds to the ankle. They're also excellent for 3 points.
Nooo, I kid. I'd never do that...again.
You have it backwards. We gave the world to the railroads.We got the industrial revolution right, and gave railways to the world.
Them and Pomeranian’s
Ever been bit by one? Surprisingly painful.
The point I was addressing and that you're ignoring is that more advanced weapons were in fact envisioned - 9 shots per minute is a big jump from 1 - 2 shots.Ok...sure.....granted. The Puckle Gun. 9 shots per minute. Not quite the deadly weapon an AR-15 is. Most single action hand guns can do much better. Even a 5 or 6 shooter that needs reloading can match or better that. Invented in Britain BTW. And....for the record.....I'm not anti 2A. I'm only anti assault weapons. As I mentioned previously....I have a hand gun and no one is going to take it from me.
Mick
Maybe not, but it IS the weapon of choice for mass shootings, which is the subject of this thread.The media likes to shriek about them but the reality is AR-style rifles aren't the weapon of choice in most murders.
brassplyer said:
The media likes to shriek about them but the reality is AR-style rifles aren't the weapon of choice in most murders.
A tragic but statistically rare event in the overall picture of crime but they get a lot of headlines from the same media that likes to ignore far more prevalent crime because of the demographics of who's committing them as do leftists who only fixate on crimes that fit their narrative and consider it a hate crime to look at the reality of *who* commits the vast majority of gun crimes.Maybe not, but it IS the weapon of choice for mass shootings, which is the subject of this thread.
You actually know that there's more mass shootings than days in the year so far and it's rare?A tragic but statistically rare event in the overall picture of crime but they get a lot of headlines from the same media that likes to ignore far more prevalent crime because of the demographics of who's committing them as do leftists who only fixate on crimes that fit their narrative and consider it a hate crime to look at the reality of *who* commits the vast majority of gun crimes.
Remind us what kind of rifle the Virginia tech shooter used? Or the perpetrator of the biggest mass killing in US history at Oklahoma City?
Your narrative continues to *fail*.
No that's the reality you don't want to acknowledge. You're of course using some convoluted, narrative-driven standard for what constitutes a "mass shooting" because that's what people who talk like you do but yes in the overall crime picture they represent a fraction of 1 percent of gun deaths and homicides overall - i.e. statistically rare.You actually know that there's more mass shootings than days in the year so far and it's rare?
That's fucked up my friend.
Erm... From the article you posted...No that's the reality you don't want to acknowledge. You're of course using some convoluted, narrative-driven standard for what constitutes a "mass shooting" because that's what people who talk like you do but yes in the overall crime picture they represent a fraction of 1 percent of gun deaths and homicides overall - i.e. statistically rare.
AR-15s aren't even close to being at the center of the picture of crime in the US nor of the picture of gun deaths in the US.
Stamp your feet and spew bogus talking points all you want - your narrative is crap that's unsupported by reality.
Remind us what kind of rifle the Virginia tech shooter used? Or the perpetrator of the biggest mass killing in US history at Oklahoma City?
You're going to use an example of the Virginia tech shooter in 2007, and the OK bombing in 1995 as an argument regarding mass shootings that happen more than once a day?No that's the reality you don't want to acknowledge. You're of course using some convoluted, narrative-driven standard for what constitutes a "mass shooting" because that's what people who talk like you do but yes in the overall crime picture they represent a fraction of 1 percent of gun deaths and homicides overall - i.e. statistically rare.
AR-15s aren't even close to being at the center of the picture of crime in the US nor of the picture of gun deaths in the US.
Stamp your feet and spew bogus talking points all you want - your narrative is crap that's unsupported by reality.
Remind us what kind of rifle the Virginia tech shooter used? Or the perpetrator of the biggest mass killing in US history at Oklahoma City?
And the 1700 killed by a sharp object means there were close to 1700 people doing the killing. Contrast that with mass causality events where one shooter can kill or mame dozens of people. The efficiency of the weapon doesn’t matter? It kinda does. We draw a line somewhere. Can’t have a nuke, right? Can’t have fully auto without a special license, right?"between 2007 and 2017, nearly 1,700 people were murdered with a knife or sharp object per year. That’s almost four times the number of people murdered by an assailant with any sort of rifle."
No matter how much you and Dave Matthews and the rest of the dishonest liberals dance, whine and bray about it the use of AR-style rifles represents a tiny fraction of the overall crime picture.And the 1700
How many school and mall shootings would it take for you to feel differently?No matter how much you and Dave Matthews and the rest of the dishonest liberals dance, whine and bray about it the use of AR-style rifles represents a tiny fraction of the overall crime picture.