New NRA Ad Shows Their Low IQ - Will Be Their Downfall

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Oswald used a $19.95 bolt action rifle and three (some say two) bullets and was able to kill a president and wound a governor. One don't need many bullets

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Oswald used a $19.95 bolt action rifle and three (some say two) bullets and was able to kill a president and wound a governor. One don't need many bullets

You'll find that most mass shooters throughout history have used guns that don't qualify as "assault weapons." Charles Whitman took down almost 50 people with a bolt action Remington that he bought out of a Sears catalog.

More recently, the "kid" shooters tend to use whatever guns their parents own- usually a 9mm. Idiots like the guy in the theater that actually did use an "assault" rifle made the classic mistake of using an extra-high capacity drum magazine which jammed almost immediately. The majority of people killed that day died from non-"assault" weapons.

The worst mass shooting in history, that one in Norway a while back that killed 80 people, was accomplished with a legally obtained .22 Ruger rifle and a 9mm Glock handgun in a country that bans assault weapons.

These three examples above were committed by ex-military members. So should the law be that anyone that serves in the military be barred from owning firearms upon discharge? Yeah, let's see how that works.

This assault weapons ban is one of the stupidest pieces of legislation to come out of this administration since the FDA and PACT Acts. The only problem is that more people are paying attention to this one, so it doubtfully won't pass.

As for armed guards in schools, i really don't have much of an opinion. I just think about the students that were saved in Columbine when the armed guard appeared on the scene. Too bad he showed up five minutes after the shooting. If I was one of the parents in the Connecticut shooting, I would be more pissed off at the school for not supplying an armed guard than I would at the firearms industry as a whole, who is expected to answer for every bad thing that someone does with one of their products.

I come from a school that had TWO armed guards. It was a big school. There was at least a shooting (student to student, usually gang related) every year. The guards made a difference; most of the kids stopped bringing guns to school. (They all switched to knives. Stabbing instances went up 300%.) So then they put FOUR armed guards at every corner of the school. Violence has decreased quite a bit, but there are still isolated incidents.

The worst thing I ever saw in school was one girl take a compass (the kind with a pencil on one end and a sharp needle in the other) and stab a girl in the neck, killing her. So the school banned compasses. But stabbings were still pretty common, they were just done with things like knives and broken glass.

My point is that no matter what you ban, there's always going to be violence, even in "enlightened" countries that have banned "assault" weapons, handguns, high capacity mags, etc. If anyone seriously thinks that the world would be a better place if this legislation was to pass, then they're probably living in a delusional fantasy world or else haven't studied up on the subject before making an informed opinion.