Beasty
Well-Known Member
You really need to move past this belief that you need an intimate knowledge of firearms to be against their widespread proliferation.
A person is mistaken on one or two technicalities about firearms and suddenly their argument is invalid??
Knowing what a gun IS should be enough.
The only weapons specifically many people want banned are so called 'assault' weapons, burst capable tactical firearms(firing 2-3 rounds per single trigger pull) that can be modified by the owner to shoot in the case of the AR15 50 rounds in a minute.
This is what the movie theater shooter in Colorado had. If his AR15 hadn't jammed, his kill rate in the opinion of many would have been 20+.
IMO most of the people who own firearms on this forum after tighter regulations would still be allowed to own their weapons. But I think there should be a limit on the amount of firearms a single owner can buy, and what type.
There are people out here stockpiling huge arsenals of weapons that make no sense.
One pull of the trigger from a 12 guage shotgun using 2 3/4 shell of 00 buckshot is like a blast of 9 instantaneous shots from a submachine gun. You think that knowing this is faaar more deadly than anything of the AR family is intimate knowlege? :smt107 Hell no its common sense to anyone who actually give a damn enough to pick up a book and do a days worth of reading.