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applegrove

(118,502 posts)
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 06:23 PM Sep 2019

A Majority Of Americans Now Favor A Mandatory Buyback Of Assault Weapons

BY JASON EASLEY a Politicususa

A Majority Of Americans Now Favor A Mandatory Buyback Of Assault Weapons

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/09/10/a-majority-of-americans-now-favor-a-mandatory-buyback-of-assault-weapons.html

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By a margin of 52%-44%, the American people support a mandatory program that would force assault weapon owners to sell their guns to the government. The Second Amendment is not an unlimited right, no matter what the gun lobby suggests.

The point of the poll finding is whether it is through a gun buyback or some other action, the majority of Americans are sending a loud message that they want assault weapons off of the streets. Republicans in Congress, Trump, and the NRA can try to claim otherwise, but the American people can see where the mass shooting problem is coming from, and it is not from video games or mental illness.

The problem is that more people are dying mass shooting incidents because of the ease and availability of assault weapons. Get rid of assault weapons, and the number of fatalities in these attacks will go down. Removing assault weapons won’t end mass shootings. The goal is to make it more difficult for mass shooters to kill and injure scores of people in a few minutes.


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A Majority Of Americans Now Favor A Mandatory Buyback Of Assault Weapons (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2019 OP
Also buy back the ammo and the upgrade kits FakeNoose Sep 2019 #1
I need to see the definition of assault weapon Chuuku Davis Sep 2019 #2
Yes, and yes Fla_Democrat Sep 2019 #6
That will be a problem Chuuku Davis Sep 2019 #9
Nah, just all PPG SAR's ... cause all the word smithing in the world isn't going to stop America uponit7771 Sep 2019 #10
Sure, and I believe for a millisecond grumpyduck Sep 2019 #3
congress tells most americans to fuck off, we don't care what you think spanone Sep 2019 #4
For a ban, not a buyback. Gun-lovers "invested" in the lethal weapons for Hoyt Sep 2019 #5
Too bad so few Americans actually vote hack89 Sep 2019 #7
Thank YOu for posting this...Kick and Recommend... Stuart G Sep 2019 #8

FakeNoose

(32,599 posts)
1. Also buy back the ammo and the upgrade kits
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 06:31 PM
Sep 2019

At least people are finally talking sense about it, that's a change!

Chuuku Davis

(565 posts)
2. I need to see the definition of assault weapon
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 06:36 PM
Sep 2019

Does it include my Remington 742?
Or my grandson's Ruger 10/22?

Chuuku Davis

(565 posts)
9. That will be a problem
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:18 PM
Sep 2019

Those are not "assault weapons".
Millions of Americans own them.
The PR will not look good.
IMHO.

grumpyduck

(6,225 posts)
3. Sure, and I believe for a millisecond
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 06:44 PM
Sep 2019

that the individual assholes who SHOULD turn their weapons in are going to do so...

... and that these weapons are not going to be available thru other channels to assholes who want them...

... and that the NRA isn't going to go all-out to get assholes riled up: "See, we told you so - the government wants to take away your Constitutional right to protect yourself against it."

I don't know what the answer is, but I'm pretty damn sure that ain't it. Might be a small part of it, but not the whole answer.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. For a ban, not a buyback. Gun-lovers "invested" in the lethal weapons for
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 06:55 PM
Sep 2019

dubious reasons. Like any bad investment, tough chit.

If a buyback is only way, I could probably agree to a small amount or they can trade their semiautomatic for a bolt or lever action rifle.

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