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Showing Original Post only (View all)To me, the most disturbing aspect of the Paris attack was the US massacre method [View all]
Aside from the suicide bombing, the method of attack was all too familiar to us in the states. Only here, it is usually a lone gunman with interpersonal failings.
Not to be too callous morbid, but the body count per attacker in Paris (if it were indeed 8) is less than the body count for the single shooters in Newtown, Aurora and Virginia Tech.
Here, we live through the almost routine mass shootings. The pattern is the same. Heavily armed and ammoed, including automatic rifles arriving unannounced to a heavily populated and enclosed area.
In Paris, there were at least 8 of them in coordination. I shudder to think what could be done here with the widely accessible arsenal.
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morningfog
Nov 2015
OP
No, there are very few automatic weapons in the US outside of military and law enforcement
Recursion
Nov 2015
#6
Number of automatic weapons manufactured for the civillian market since 1987. . . . .
Travis_0004
Nov 2015
#11
Restricting semi-autos would. As would changing the perception of yahoo gun fanciers.
Hoyt
Nov 2015
#62
Indeed it would. If the party ever got off its ass and got behind that I would support it.
Recursion
Nov 2015
#67
I agree with that, although I do question the sanity of those who are attracted to rifles with
Hoyt
Nov 2015
#78
Yeah, but most people do not hunt, unless you include people as prey. And who needs a Hi Cap
Hoyt
Nov 2015
#105
Earth. None of the mass shootings in the past several decades have used automatic weapons (nt)
Recursion
Nov 2015
#8
FFS if you care about gun legislation you should learn this very basic difference
Recursion
Nov 2015
#41
No, the fact that that's the only crime they've been used in proves they are rare
Recursion
Nov 2015
#106
the 30,000 people killed by USA gun owners aren't too concerned about such quibbles nt
msongs
Nov 2015
#29
Well if they want the actual guns that are killing them addressed, they should be
Recursion
Nov 2015
#35
I think terrorism is a really good rubric for understanding US mass shootings
Recursion
Nov 2015
#64
Lots of stuff is done. I know this isn't GD-P, but look at O'Malley after Sandy Hook
Recursion
Nov 2015
#87
Pretty bogus to cite "body count per attacker" in a coordinated terrorist attack
melman
Nov 2015
#95