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Harris, Walz Push AR-15 Ban in First Joint Campaign Appearance
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Which gun did that kid use to try to assassinate trump again?
An AR.
Uvalde?
The most commonly available rifle is the one most commonly used? Shocking!
You’re starting to get it. The most commonly available rifle, which was designed to kill many people in a short time, is the weapon of choice for large-scale shootings.
Therefore, I support banning them.
How about Pulse? Columbine? Texas Tech?
Or sandy hook, a Florida high school, a Texas Walmart, a Las Vegas concert, a Pittsburgh Synagogue, or a church in Texas?
Wasn't the synagogue a pistol?
In any case, it's the most popular rifle in America, just by sheer rate it's going to be used more.
Most gun homicides are done with handguns. This is completely off topic, unless you think mass shooting victims are the only real victims or something.
It’s going to be used more for many reasons beyond simply being “popular”:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ar-15-mass-shootings-60-minutes-2022-05-29/
It’s literally designed to kill a LOT of people. Not hunt, not for sport. Not defense. Murder.
It’s one thing to defend yourself with a gun, I’m not advocating for getting rid of all guns or stopping people from owning a gun. I am however, for a ban on guns designed to kill large amounts of people in a short amount of time, especially when it has been the tool for every mass shooting that has bigger death counts than any others prior to AWB.
Even if that was true, so fucking what?
I deny your fundamental assumptions here, that something should be banned because it can be used to cause a lot of damage.
Murder is illegal, it shouldn't matter the tool used.
Your lack of empathy is showing.
The line is drawn somewhere. Civilians can't purchase automatic weapons or say, hand grenades. Do you think we should be able to?
They can actually. US Law allows the purchase of both.
Both require a background check and a tax stamp.
@wintermute_oregon @zeppo The common line of argumentation I hear from the left on this is actually regarding tanks and RPGs. I get what he's trying to ask here.
You can buy both in America. It all depends on how much paperwork you want to fill out.
Sometimes you have to make a great commitment to start a business to do it.
It is actually shocking what you can buy if you had the interest, time and money to do it.
@wintermute_oregon Oh. I thought for sure it was illegal to have a weaponized tank or an #RPG.
It is difficult but not impossible. There was a place in Vegas that let you drive and shoot a tank.
Just do a google, you will be shocked at what you can buy.
Yes we can actually. You just have to jump through a few hoops.