The point is -- if a newbie engineer can create this in a few afternoons out of spare parts, any black-market weapon maker can contract some engineers and with a few CNC machines and some billet aluminum and steel, can start cranking out AR-15s.
Literally the only people affected by "gun bans" are the law-abiding. Any criminal gets armed with cheap black-market weapons. All the political elites and aparatchiks have armed guards. The rest of us dumb slobs get to be mowed down in the cross-fire between roving gangs, or defencelessly abused and robbed in a home invasion.
Or clubbed as we protest in the streets, by our ever-caring politician's brown-shirts.
Remember: every smokeless powder propellant powered firearm is basically an "air gun". The rest is ... refinement.
> Literally the only people affected by "gun bans" are the law-abiding. Any criminal gets armed with cheap black-market weapons.
Norway has pretty strict gun laws, requiring active shooting club membership and documented activity for being allowed to own non-hunting weapons and strict limits on number of firearms based on competition activity level.
Yet I read recently one can get a decent black market 9mm pistol for half what the cheaper models go for in the gun stores...
There's also been a record number of shootings here in the capital this year. Hope it's just a coincidence...
Once you have high strength steel tubes freely available in a HD store, the rest is pretty easy. Also, I'm amused by the lack of concern over crossbows and archery in general by busybodies.
Most mass shootings in the US seem to be perpetrated by the "law abiding" gun owners. Just having less guns in circulation would go a very long way to reduce gun related homicides.
2/3rds of all firearm deaths in the US are from suicide. The majority of the rest are from drug/gang violence or domestic disputes.
Having free healthcare in the US (esp. mental healthcare) would drastically reduce the amount of firearm deaths via suicide.
Couple that with free after school jobs and skills training for those most at risk inner city youth who are the most likely to join a gang or sell drugs, would also have a large impact at reducing drug/gang firearm deaths.
Those two things alone would make the largest impact. Not reducing the amount of firearms.
Heck even raising the min wage to $15 would help so those kids parents dont have to work multiple jobs and can spend more time with and raising their children.
Most mass shootings in the US are gang related using illegally-owned pistols, IIRC. At least using the definition that gets you big numbers of mass shootings.
The article you linked says that it's a myth that most gun violence is committed by drug gangs. OP didn't argue that, he argued that most mass shootings are gang activity related. At no point does it mention mass shootings.
You're correct. It looks like indiscriminate mass shootings are a relative rarity among mass shootings. Thanks for pointing that out. I think for those who would ban guns, they're probably more concerned with the overall rate of gun homicide, as opposed to specifically about mass shootings. But it's a valid distinction for some purpose I'm sure.
Literally the only people affected by "gun bans" are the law-abiding. Any criminal gets armed with cheap black-market weapons. All the political elites and aparatchiks have armed guards. The rest of us dumb slobs get to be mowed down in the cross-fire between roving gangs, or defencelessly abused and robbed in a home invasion.
Or clubbed as we protest in the streets, by our ever-caring politician's brown-shirts.
Remember: every smokeless powder propellant powered firearm is basically an "air gun". The rest is ... refinement.