We've taken ACTION on much less threatening causes of death, but guns keep getting a free pass

[True Dough]

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. Yep, a lack of effort in regard to guns.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Kicked and recommended. nt

[CrispyQ]

3. Do people still have to remove their shoes at the airport?

[raccoon]

4. Happy to send this to Greatest! nt

[brewens]

5. The last assault weapons ban was sloppy. One of the big problems is the high

capacity magazines. It maybe wouldn't even be that big of a difference if a guy actually had a fully automatic weapon. You can shoot those things quickly and accurately on semi-auto and not blow through your ammo too quick. They just cranked out a bunch more magazines before the ban went into effect and demand made the price go up, but everyone that really wanted them could still get one.

No one raises hell much about the ban from the 30's on full auto guns, because it was for a good reason. They are extremely lethal weapons of war. It's getting more clear that it's not whether you have a fast rate of fire or extremely fast, it's how many rounds you can accurately fire.

Militaries all over the world train their troops to mostly use semi auto on their select fire assault rifles. So those AR-15's and AK's are in effect the same weapons troops around the world use in combat.

[MicaelS]

9. We need a new NFA for all semiautos based on the NFA of 1934

Go through the same procedures;

background checked,
finger printing,
photographed,
registration in a data base
pay for a $200 tax stamp for each gun,
and $100 for each magazine, regardless of size.

[elocs]

6. It's the Second Amendment that makes the difference.

There's no use in pretending it doesn't or rationalizing it away.

[Calculating]

8. Exactly

The 2A exists whether people like it or not. If you want real action on guns it will need to be repealed, if not there's little to be done. I guess you could have the SCOTUS review it again, but given the current makeup of the court I doubt that would be productive.

[elocs]

12. That is an absolutely valid assessment that people don't like to hear.

Pass all the gun control laws you want and then watch as the NRA sues and what happens when it ends up before this particular Supreme Court?

[LanternWaste]

11. A difference rather than the difference

[Calculating]

7. The shoe bomb thing is actually an example of going to far

Now we gotta be all paranoid and scan our shoes just because one loser tried and failed to blow up a blame with a bomb in his shoe? That shit wasn't gonna work anyway...

[malaise]

10. Great post

Rec

[tblue37]

13. K&R for visibility. nt