ARs...Help Me Understand

[willy]

And just another thought, personally on this horrific shooting in CT. Had I been there, I would have shot this son of a biiatch dead, in his tracks. Because I am a armed American Citizen and I would have done what I had to do to stop such a crazed lunatic.
That being said, we no longer have many armed American Citizens around in the north east especially. We are an area of the country with a population of sheeple who elect rulers to control everything in our lives. And to give us free sh!t. Taken from others who earned it. Myself and family excluded.
Now this crazed scumbag killed both of his parents, then went to the school and shot little children down.
WTF
Are there any thinking men and women who believe someone so possessed by evil would be concerned at all about what the law says about possession of a handgun?
Does anyone, anyone, believe a law passed to control the People would have any effect whatsoever on whether this scum of the earth would destroy countless lives any way possible?
So, then what is the motive of those who would use such a tragedy.
There is only one true motive, a deceitful, lying seizure of liberty, for the sole purpose of control.

Initially, using a terrible incident for their political control, those in power in the Australian Government forced registration of all firearms, under threat of imprisonment, then once that was accomplished went door to door kicking them in when needed and seized the People's weapons.
Now, as in England, the crime rate is through the roof. The only ones with weapons to defend themselves are the police and the criminals.
The citizens are the sheeple in the middle and dieing every day.
In Florida, massive criminal activity brought about the "Shall Issue Law"
hundreds of thousands of Floridians are licensed to carry a concealed weapon. What happened?
Crime rate dropped, 40% in two years.
Who did the scum start targeting? Tourist's, Why? because they were the only ones the scum was sure was not armed.
Anyone who tells you the government is just looking out for the "folks" or the "children" when they seize upon a horrific tragedy to push their Agenda is outright stupid or just meant to be under the control of someone anyhow and there is nothing you can do for them.
The best you can do is try to inform them, and hope they have somewhere inside of themselves the ability to stand for reason, common sense, and Liberty.
JMHO

[smokeonthewater]

90% of the time I have a glock 22 (.40) within arms reach... It has hollow points and half the capacity of the ar mag.... I have no desire to EVER have to use it but if the heroic teacher who hid her kids in cabinets had possessed it the killing would stopped after he entered her classroom and just before he could kill her.

whoops, I guess that was off topic sorta...

[tsubaki]

While applauding willy's usual brilliant response, I'll throw a question you can ask the men that don't understand the relevance of high capacity magazines.
"Why in the world do you need a Hemi when the same vehicle is available in a regular V8 or V6?"

[THEFERMANATOR]

If for no other reason, because we want one. Quite honestly most everybody in this world including many who are flat broke induldge on things they don't need simply because we want them. AMERICA was founded as a free society to do as we please so long as it was within limits. So if one feels like going out and shooting 30 cans in a row, why shouldn't one be allowed. It would be like saying that you can't have more than 1 child, 1 car per person, or you should only be allowed a daily ration of gruel. We all have our guilty pleasures that we induldge in, some choose cars, some choose boats, others choose stamps, some choose guns, and so on. How is it anybody elses business what somebody else chooses to do with there time, and what they choose to buy. And how will limiting people to a single shot gun help stop crime? Look at areas where guns are outlawed, they just happen to be some of the most dangerous places next to warzones, coincedence.

I truely feel bad for the children, and would hate to think of going through this with my own son now that I'm a father, but on the other hand this crime could have been committed with a baseball bat, knives, machettes, axes, car, or anything else that somebodies twisted mind can misuse. When will we as a society come to realize that it isn't the weapon but the individual that is the problem? If somebody was twisted enough, they could use a stuffed bunny rabbit with a brick in it, but I doubt we wil lever hear for the banning of stuffed toys and houses to prevent a tragedy like that from happening.

And I know this should be in the politics section, but in all honesty I feel a large portion of the blame lies with our society as a whole as we have devalued human life. People have now become desensitized to violence courtesy of TV, abortions are just a thing anymore and many feel it should be allowed to be done to children right up until birth(yes I call them children as it is a life at conception), and not to mention video games and the message that has been sent of how killing is just good entertainment. And before it is said, no I'm not calling for the banning of video games or more restrictions on them. What I AM calling for is people to be responsible for there actions, to accept responsibity for there actions, and for people to realize there are some people in this world who have issues that are beyond the grasp of normal thinking. And that those kinds of people will do harm to others no matter what they have to go through to do it.

I'll stop there before I go off the deep end and bring religion into it.

[ssiredfish]

Only 18secs and hillarious about the 2nd ammend.......

http://youtu.be/RablPaIREkk

[Seacrets]

First of all, I can't imagine the pain and anguish of the families and friends in the senseless killings in Conn. In a very recent study by the FBI: Of the 12600 plus people murdered in the US this year, 323 were killed by rifles. Not assult rifles, but total rifles. I don't know if it is still true, but the weapon of choice for killers used to be a .22. This was most kids first rifle. Most .223 caliber guns are used for target practice or hunting. The weapons used in Conn. were the killer's mothers. She enjoyed target shooting. This kid didn't have too bad of a life. He and mom lived in a 3100 square foot house and mom got $240k a year alimony. That's $20k monthly and it was going up to $295k in 2015. Is the real problem assult rifles or the mentally ill? In my opinion, I don't think banning assult rifles will fix the problem. What's next, semi auto handguns? That's like constantly changing a blown fuse in your car and not fixing the real problem.
Two weeks ago I bought some .22 shells at a local Walmart and the cashier said the computer wanted to know if they were going to be used in a handgun. Who really wanted to know, Walmart or Big Brother? Just my $.02 and an old man's rant.