I was trained to hit my chosen target, not spray the neighborhood. I noticed the shooter in El Paso used an AK clone and earphones without body armor and surrendered immediately when confronted by police. Personal guess would be that he wants a public trial to make a political statement.
Dayton was looking to kill/injure as many as possible is the shortest time. He was wearing body armor and didn’t surrender, so there was probably a bit of “suicide by cop” feel to the situation. Now people are coming out of the woodwork to tell the world that the shooter had always been a homicidal maniac.
Hell, BT, the military backed off the M-16 full auto to the burst mode M-4, most of the rounds were threats to birds. If you’re looking for a thrill to kill something, get a .22LR autoloader and head for the town dump and shoot rats.
]]>None of these rifles have any actual real purpose other than killing large numbers of people, and none of them belong in the hands of civilians, any more than an atom bomb does.
]]>If you are hunting for food, you can’t beat the accuracy of a good bolt action rifle.
I didn’t like or respect the M-16 when I was in the military, and sure as hell wouldn’t buy a clone now.
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2) Break-open and pump action shotguns
3) Bolt-action and lever-action rifles.
Nobody needs 17 rounds or 100 rounds or 500 rounds to deal with a home invader. The Tueller drill says that if in the enclosed space of your home you don’t manage to stop the intruder with your first three shots, he’s going to be on top of you and kill you. Nobody needs a handgun with a magazine that holds more than 10 rounds. Reality again.
There’s only one purpose for weapons like these murderers used, and that’s to murder other human beings. Not self defense. Not hunting. Not any of that. Now, sometimes that’s useful. I want my military and my cops to be armed with as much firepower as they need to take out the bad guys. But random Joe on the street? He has no goddamn business having that semi-automatic AK-47 with a drum magazine. That’s just bullshit.
]]>We have a Red Flag law in Florida. It was passed after the Parkland massacre. The guns are taken for two weeks, then there is a court hearing. If the judge doesn’t feel the seizure was justified, the guns are returned. In South Florida the judges are generally Cuban or Black. Water towers have been locked forever and there are suicide watches on certain bridges. If someone wants to die, there are a lot of ways to do it that don’t involve guns, but guns are a factor in too many suicides, and too many gun deaths are suicides. I admit helping a friend clean up after his sister-in-law’s suicide with a shotgun colors my attitude.
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