14 Mass Shootings in the USA Over Memorial Day Weekend

[kutter]

If you limit my ability to purchase an AR platform, I will just have a reason to finally buy that Binelli M4 I have been wanting, and instead of having 30 rounds and then reload, I will have 168 pellets of .24 caliber or 64 of .33 caliber, although I find 00 buck to be a little overkill, #4 is my preference. Tell me again how AR platform rifles are so dangerous. There is a reason a shotgun is called a street howitzer, in close quarters the damage it does is hard to imagine. But you go on thinking that banning something that is responsible for less than 700 deaths a year will have even a measurable blip on the murder rate.

[Parkbandit]

If you limit my ability to purchase an AR platform, I will just have a reason to finally buy that Binelli M4 I have been wanting, and instead of having 30 rounds and then reload, I will have 168 pellets of .24 caliber or 64 of .33 caliber, although I find 00 buck to be a little overkill, #4 is my preference. Tell me again how AR platform rifles are so dangerous. There is a reason a shotgun is called a street howitzer, in close quarters the damage it does is hard to imagine. But you go on thinking that banning something that is responsible for less than 700 deaths a year will have even a measurable blip on the murder rate.

I wouldn't call 25% a "blip"...

If banning AR15’s would drop the number of gun deaths in the US by 25%, would you be willing to give up your AR15?

[kutter]

I wouldn't call 25% a "blip"...

Haven't we already covered how flawed his math is?

[Methais]

Hope they raise the age to serve in the Military to 21 then.
Hope they raise the age to vote to 21 then.
Hope they raise the age a person must pay taxes to 21 then.

If 18 is considered legally an adult... then all rights should be afforded that adult as a citizen of the country.

21 is an arbitrary number designed to get people to first give an inch... then they take everything.

Why do minors pay taxes anyway if they can't vote? That 16 year old working the drive through is a victim of taxation without representation.

[Parkbandit]

Haven't we already covered how flawed his math is?

I'm still hoping Shaft will come back and show his math.......

[Shaps]

A lesson for those that think law abiding citizens shouldn't have guns. This isn't new, and it won't ever change. Criminals will do criminal shit... and when the Police or corrupt DAs won't fix the issue and secure an area for law abiding citizens (ie. what's currently happening in many cities)... then the right to self-defense is the correct answer.

The gun laws are fine. Lazy, inept application of them due to human error and ignorance is the issue. Stop throwing in responsible gun owners with maniacs who abuse and ignore the laws already on the books.

[time4fun]

A lesson for those that think law abiding citizens shouldn't have guns. This isn't new, and it won't ever change. Criminals will do criminal shit... and when the Police or corrupt DAs won't fix the issue and secure an area for law abiding citizens (ie. what's currently happening in many cities)... then the right to self-defense is the correct answer.

The gun laws are fine. Lazy, inept application of them due to human error and ignorance is the issue. Stop throwing in responsible gun owners with maniacs who abuse and ignore the laws already on the books.

This would be more compelling if it weren't coming from someone who lives in the only fully industrialized country with a mass shooting problem

[Shaps]

https://www.factsinstitute.com/ranki...more%20rows%20

I've been in more shithole countries than you can imagine, so your argument about living in the US is moot... we don't have a "mass shooting problem"... as I posted previously, 20k murders in 2020 due to guns in the United States (included a CDC data link also) out of 350m people. That is .005%. If you remove all the ones in Democrat run cities, we'd easily be below 8k if not more.

So excuse me for thinking critically. Your argument would be more compelling if it weren't coming from a blinded partisan hack.

[~Rocktar~]

This would be more compelling if it were coming from someone who supports my position in a fully industrialized country with a mass personal responsibility problem that refuses to protect schools in an adequate manner.

ftfy

So excuse me for thinking critically. Your argument would be more compelling if it weren't coming from a complete moron with 387 degrees that thinks that men can give birth and breast feed.

[Seran]

https://www.factsinstitute.com/ranki...more%20rows%20

I've been in more shithole countries than you can imagine, so your argument about living in the US is moot... we don't have a "mass shooting problem"... as I posted previously, 20k murders in 2020 due to guns in the United States (included a CDC data link also) out of 350m people. That is .005%. If you remove all the ones in Democrat run cities, we'd easily be below 8k if not more.

So excuse me for thinking critically. Your argument would be more compelling if it weren't coming from a blinded partisan hack.

Suicides more than double that number in the United States, and with 80% of murders in our country being from firearms, we have a gun death epidemic that must be stopped.

What share of U.S. gun deaths are murders and what share are suicides?

Though they tend to get less public attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. In 2020, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (24,292), while 43% were murders (19,384), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were unintentional (535), involved law enforcement (611) or had undetermined circumstances (400).

What share of all murders and suicides in the U.S. involve a gun?

Nearly eight-in-ten (79%) U.S. murders in 2020 – 19,384 out of 24,576 – involved a firearm. That marked the highest percentage since at least 1968, the earliest year for which the CDC has online records. A little over half (53%) of all suicides in 2020 – 24,292 out of 45,979 – involved a gun, a percentage that has generally remained stable in recent years.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...hs-in-the-u-s/

But hey, we're only number TWO in the world for the number of gun deaths in 2019, so in Republican speak, everything is fine.

Countries with the Highest Total Gun Deaths (all causes) in 2019

Brazil — 49,436
United States — 37,038
Venezuela — 28,515
Mexico — 22,116
India — 14,710
Colombia — 13,169
Philippines — 9,267
Guatemala — 5,980

https://worldpopulationreview.com/co...ths-by-country