One Nation Under Guns?

[NYC_SKP]

1. Oh gosh, more hair on fire! "Mass shootings" are actually on the decline in America.

I can't believe I bothered to read it...

"Why not legislate smaller magazine sizes"....

Why not legislate smaller magazine sizes so that less people get killed before a criminal has to reload? Many Congressmen and NRA officials argue that such legislation is a waste of time because criminals won’t adhere to them. I suppose by that logic Americans may as well decriminalise murder, rape and theft. What about at least reinstating an assault weapons ban so that military-grade weapons can’t be put into the hands of the common psychopath? President of the NRA, David Keene, claims that the initial Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 “made no difference” to the levels of gun-related deaths in the USA and that therefore any modified version of the ban would also do little to reduce their drastically high rates of mass slaughter. Well you know what they say: If at first you don’t succeed, fuck it.

Obviously one can’t expect to find a single, perfect solution to a problem as big as gun-related violence in America. Naturally these ideas have their flaws, but wouldn’t even flawed attempts at gun control be better than the current situation now where even the clinically-diagnosed mentally-disturbed citizens of the USA can buy any type of firearm without a background check? The situation is more disturbing than the individuals themselves!

As I’ve said before: I am a gun enthusiast. However, I don’t feel as though gun culture and gun control are diametrically opposing ideas. Many enthusiasts across the USA are responsible gun owners that don’t and likely won’t harm themselves or others. The issue at hand is how to come up with laws that limit eligibility to buy firearms and the level of carnage that those firearms can cause, so that massacres like Maryland never happen again.

Gun enthusiast, right.

These are the ramblings of a hopelessly myopic writer (sometimes I hate the internets) who wonders, "I don't want hi cap magazines, personally, therefore you don't need them."

Fuck the author.