I Guess Massacres Now OK. No Change In Gun Attitudes Per Poll?

[TheMastersNemesis]

You really wonder if it is hopeless or not on gun control. These mass shootings were not possible before these assault weapons were readily available. Now GOP supports these gun stocks?

[angstlessk]

1. See, what's his name thought he would be infamous forever...

...but massacres, like you say, have become hum drum every day occurrences.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. We Just Had A Shooting Near CSU In Fort Collins. Two Young People Were Killed.

I believe it is ok to carry a gun on campus now. Though I believe it was off campus.

[Irish_Dem]

2. We live in a violent society. Can be targeted any time, any place.

That is our reality.

[RKP5637]

4. The US is a nation of professional mourners. Everyone yells when events happen, the pot gets

stirred and then everything settles down again until the next one. It's pathetic. It's the same pattern, and we have in many cases useless politicians with their hands out for money.

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. Many Of The Wounded Will Live With Terrible Disabilities Needing 24/7 Care.

[crazycatlady]

5. An AR-15 is obviously more important than the lives of 20 first graders

[Initech]

8. Or 9 people in a church. Or 15 in a movie theater. Or 50 at a nightclub.

Or 13 at an office Christmas party. Or 58 at a country music festival. It doesn't matter what the target is, or how many die. Until these things are banned or controlled, we're all sitting ducks.

[Orrex]

7. The important thing is that no "gun rights" were harmed in the aftermath

[RKP5637]

9. The US is a mentally disturbed country! n/t

[sarisataka]

10. Which poll? nt

[aikoaiko]

11. Ironically, it was the first Assault Weapons Ban that helped propel the popularity of the AR rifle

So called assault weapons of the semi-automatic variety, like AR15s, have been around a long time (since 1964).

I remember the pushback on Congress in the 1990s when they passed it and then the growing interest in AR as a result because of the "forbidden fruit" factor. Plus you could still buy an AR during the 1004 AWB if you swapped it didn't the flash suppressor and bayonet lug. You know, because there were so many drive-by bayonettings in the US.

Then when the ban went away from a lack of Congressional action, more people than ever wanted one.

The law of unintended consequences.