Since this got resurrected I have to dig into where you two are coming from. Seen a lot of arguing from you and no ideas on how to actually affect change.
Here’s my perspective: a decade of holding multiple armorer certifications on over a dozen small arms in addition to experience in emergency medicine (TEMS/EMT). Intimately familiar with these weapons, cartridges, and their ballistic potential on soft (human) targets. My perspective comes from a place of fact and experience.
Fact: the “assault weapons” y’all are debating account for 2-4% of annual gun crime. School shootings are terrible, but they’re reported in a grossly disproportionate manner. And emotional people like you get whipped into a frenzy. Congrats on taking the bait.
Fact: we’ve tried the assault weapons ban before. It had “little to no measurable affect on gun crime” because...you guessed it! The legislation was addressing a statistical insignificance due to the fact that “assault weapons” are prohibitively expensive and not concealable.
https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/pub...tudy-koper.pdf
Fact: there’s no solution to the gun problem as you see it. This is a county built on the availability of guns, so short of a nationwide confiscation, it won’t happen. The availability is the reason why places like Chicago continue to be hyper-violent, despite sweeping gun control regulations. Bad guys don’t follow the law and go buy the guns in Indiana and Wisconsin. Criminals not following laws?! Gasp!
Fact: Violent crime is down after years of gun regulations loosening. Availability of guns isn’t always the issue. There was a day (pre-1934) where you could buy a Tommy Gun off the shelf at Sears. How many mass shootings were there then?
The statistical problem in this country is cheap handguns in the inner city. Government resources are finite, so if you want change why don’t I hear anyone talking about that? Job creation, community policing, mentorship programs, legalizing pot, etc are all long-term solutions that address the statistically significant problem.
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