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In reply to the discussion: Why was the reaction to the Navy Yard shootings more muted than that of Sandy Hook? [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)13. I inquired of this in the Gungeon...
I think CBS does not have it right, because ANY legal firearm not under NFA regulation must be sold/purchased in the same manner, be it handgun, rifle or shotgun. ATF has a different regulation for types not conforming to types I cited, most esp. true Assault Rifles (or machine guns in popular parlance), so the CBS story is very puzzling.
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Why was the reaction to the Navy Yard shootings more muted than that of Sandy Hook? [View all]
Eleanors38
Sep 2013
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Probably because little children were slaughtered at Sandy Hook elementary school.
Cali_Democrat
Sep 2013
#1
"I would have expected the Navy Yard shooting to cause more interest in discussing gun control."
geomon666
Sep 2013
#2
They dont have armed guards. Few if any people on military bases are armed at any given moment. nt
stevenleser
Sep 2013
#29
Since they are so damned expensive maybe he just didn't have the money. He couldn't
doc03
Sep 2013
#44
Because after Sandy Hook we decided that even dead kids won't matter, why should some office people?
thereismore
Sep 2013
#8
One of the problems with reaction to killings is a feeling of moral high ground
Eleanors38
Sep 2013
#39
Because our nation has not reached that magical number of fallen victims, yet. Someone
Jefferson23
Sep 2013
#16
The first few times you get a blister, but after that you get a callous and it doesn't hurt anymore.
1-Old-Man
Sep 2013
#18
The gun control tenet is "more guns = more gun deaths" and the stats all show that
stevenleser
Sep 2013
#32
The problem with your premise is that there are those who want to prevent mass killings,
mythology
Sep 2013
#23