Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumLet’s Show the Gun Lobby the True “Connecticut Effect”
The Sandy Hook massacre has indeed energized support for stronger gun laws. And those of us who support such legislation have a duty to make sure this energy is not a temporary blip, but the spark for true and lasting change. Statistical analysis suggests that deadly mass shootings, like the one at Sandy Hook, are indeed on the rise. Most mass shootings have involved the very weapons that advocates believe ought to be bannedassault-type weapons and/or high-capacity ammunition clips. And mass shootings are not the only concern. Since December 14, more than 1,700 Americans have died as the result of gun violence.
We owe it to the Sandy Hook victims and to the loved ones of those 1,700 dead Americans to redeem the term Connecticut effect from the gun lobbys crass and calculated use.
Yeah, theres a Connecticut effect, and it is this: Those of us who believe that it is possible to both uphold the Second Amendment and prevent some criminal gun use by passing common-sense gun laws, such as universal background checks and the banning of assault-style weapons and ammunition, will not give up. We will not forget the victims of Sandy Hook (or Aurora or Tucson or Virginia Tech .). We will not forget the thousands of people who have died and will likely die in less sensational but equally deadly shootings on our city streets or in back bedrooms or in domestic disputes gone terribly wrong.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/02/itisenough-the-victims-of-gun-violence-deserve-a-vote/
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)The NRA seems only interested in selling weapons and this is not a good thing to have in the wrong hands, too many weapons are being sold to those with the attitude they need to use the weapons to attack innocent people. It does not matter the age of some people they are not mature enough to co troll their emotions.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)The background check needs to be more comprehensive and it needs to include all transfers.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)But we have to base public policy on actual facts and not paranoid fantasies of fighting off Federal stormtroopers. That means 1. admitting that gun proliferation is a problem, 2. figuring out how to prevent guns from being used in crimes. Part of that will be restrictions and part will be educational. Part will be allowing law enforcement to do its job. It presently takes hours or even days for the ATF through phone calls and faxes to trace a gun from the manufacturer to the eventual end user. Sometimes they can't because of unregulated transfers. This is because they are not allowed to keep a list of who has bought a gun through a licensed dealer or not. That information is available anyway, but not quickly.
bossy22
(3,547 posts)If that stops maybe we will have a chance to do something constructive- instead of harping on stupid things like assault weapons.
bossy22
(3,547 posts)last time i checked the military uses a standard FMJ round
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)either. must be that mythical ammunition I hear of but can not be seen.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)As you say, the Geneva Convention requires ammunition to be full metal jacket to avoid maiming soldiers hit with powerful rifle bullets.
Police, OTOH, carry hollow point pistol ammunition because it is safer than FMJ. There's less danger of over penetration and safer for the suspect since fewer shots will stop him.
but it is probably just the term thata will be used to justify whatever type of ammunition they are attempting to ban
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)A little of this, a little of that, shaken together to be grammatically correct....
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)We just might be able to get some good things happening. The US does not need LaPierre dictating to us what rules we should have with the information he has been giving.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)He long ago forfeited the right to be taken seriously.