1. My great-grandfathers Winchester model 1894 lever-action 30-30 deer rifle can easily defeat light armor such as the Kevlar Level IIIa typically worn by police officers that is only designed to defeat handgun bullets. This rifle was first manufactured in the year 1894, and has been a very popular choice for deer and black bear hunting for almost 120 years now. Are you proposing that we ban any hunting rifle that can defeat light armor? Light armor is just that...light. Its meant to defeat low velocity handgun rounds and buckshot, not rifle rounds. If you want to defeat high-powered rifle rounds you need to wear a trauma plate inside the armor. They are made of steel and ceramic and weigh about 40 pounds each (one in front, one in back), which is why cops dont normally wear them.
2. The nut case who shot the fireman was half a block away, not half a mile. Half a mile is 800 meters, which is at least twice the effective range of a .223 round fired from a scoped rifle. If you want to spout off on gun control then at least try to get your facts straight.
3. The nut case who shot the fireman could have accomplished the same thing using a conventional bolt or lever action hunting rifle. He ambushed them from a concealed position. His choice of weapon had no bearing on the outcome of the shooting.
4. The nut case who shot the fireman was already convicted felon who by law could not own firearms in the first place. He obtained the weapon illegally, thru a straw buyer. Instead of worrying the magazine capacity of a weapon that he was legally prohibited from even having, perhaps we should be asking why a man who beat his 75 year old grandmother to death with a claw hammer was out on parole from prison to begin with.
As i indicated to you before, merely explaining the effects of other weapons doesnt justify the need for assault weapons. We can all agree that ALL guns can kill, and no one is suggesting that they dont.
The reality of the state of our nation is that we live amongst people who want to own guns by whatever means, and their mental states are such that they take those guns and go out and massacre people.
Its what our country has promoted and protected through the selling of weapons.
No one knows or will ever be able to find out what triggers a person to do such things, but I for one, dont want to live in a country that has to be a police state, with armed guards everywhere because we fear our fellow citizens.
More guns isnt the solution, banning all guns isnt the solution. Changing the mentality of gun owners IS.
Morons building bunkers and stockpiling bullets and clips and high powered weapons, waiting for the big battle with the goverment. THESE ARE THE PROBLEMS!
A political party and its talking heads promoting "the end of america as we know it" is creating the monsters that will ultimately shoot up the next school , church or goverment office.
The consitution provides that "we the people of the united states"... "shall establish domestic tranquility".... regulating guns , ammo and clips will do just that. Until YOU gun owners start to POLICE yourselves and notify authorities when you run into that person who is just NUTS enough to do some harm to others with weapons, these shootings will never end.
GUN owners want to look the other way everytime a massacre occurs. You ALL give the "oh bless the dead"... blah blah blah, but in reality, you worry that the massacre itself will somehow effect you and your guns which is really, your biggest concern.
Dead people mean nothing to gun owners. Thousands are killed and thousands commit suicide with guns, but that doesnt phase a single one of you.
Its an acceptable aspect of "your rights".
As for Illegal guns, the colorado shooter BOUGHT everything legally over the counter and ammo on the internet, including his 100 round drum mag.
I read as you all state you wont register your guns as that "tramples" on your liberties, but you will register your cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles and such, and that doesnt trample your liberty.
Give us a break. If you got nothing to hide, then you will register your weapons.
Peace
TOS
