Are we ever going to get tired enough of school shootings that we actually do something about them?

[branford]

230. Huh, again?

First, simply you do not understand the First or Second Amendments, and certainly know very little about firearms.

Even assuming certain firearms are "unsafe" and used by "terrorists," the Second Amendment were repealed tomorrow, and Congress banned them (which will not happen), groups like the NRA would still be free to advocate for them. Groups and individuals in the USA advance messages far more offensive and dangerous than guns, and its completely legal (e.g., KKK, NAMBLA, general support for groups like ISIS, etc.). There is no "scary rifle" exception to either the First (or Second) Amendment.

Moreover, whether you, and some like you, believe rifles like the AR-15 platform are unsafe, is entirely immaterial. There are various common law and regulatory hurdles to determine the consumer safety of a product, and the AR-15 rifle is perfectly safe, otherwise it wouldn't be one of the most popular rifles in America, including with law enforcement, and its fully automatic and burst fire cousin, the M16, would not be the rifle used by our armed forces. Ironically, the AR-15 is actually not as potentially destructive and lethal as many other hunting rifles in larger, more powerful calibers, and it is virtually identically lethal to common antique rifles in existence for over a century.

You objection is not really that any particular gun is unsafe, but that they actually work well as designed and intended. You wish to essentially ban all semiautomatic guns with removable magazines (and probably most others), firearms that comprise the vast majority of privately owned and carried guns in the USA for many, many decades. Even without the Second Amendment, which only sets a cap on the what firearms the government can restrict, there is nowhere near anything close to a majority interested in banning or severely restricting such weapons, no matter how much you wish Americans believed differently.

Lastly, your contention that the AR-15 is the preferred weapon of "terrorists" is ludicrous. In the USA, all rifles account for tiny fraction of gun crime and injury, and even the small number percentage of highly-publicized mass shootings occur with a variety of different handguns, rifles, shotguns. Handguns account for the overwhelming majority of weapons used in crimes. More importantly (and accurately), actual terrorists worldwide, like those of ISIS, prefer the Russian designed AK-47, and its knock-offs, which is a different caliber and design than the AR-15.

As to who is "spewing ridiculous nonsense," which one of us has described the actual state of firearm and First Amendment jurisprudence and the political reality of firearms and the NRA in this country as they exist today, and for many decades before? Angrily demanding that the NRA and the vast majority of all guns should be banned is your shibboleth, not mine.