Families upended by school shootings share trauma in push for gun law changes, but get mixed results - eviltoast
Throughout the corridors of many state Capitols, families are sharing emotionally gutting stories of tragedy caused by mass school shootings with the hope that revealing their trauma will convince lawmakers on either side of the political aisle to reconsider firearm policies.
  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    they aren’t calling for banning ALL guns, they’re calling for banning certain types of guns.

    From a rights oriented perspective “that’s how it starts”. Especially for the folks online calling for an Australia style ban.

    people are eventually just going to eliminate the 2A altogether, which would be harmful IMO.

    That would require a new amendment and that’s just not possible given the current governmental dysfunction. You’d have to start by getting 290 votes in the House, the same folks who needed 15 tries to get the 218 votes needed to decide who their own leader would be. :(

    Instead of insisting that a sentence written hundreds of years ago means you can do whatever you want with no restrictions, maybe come up with a reasonable argument as to why it is important for our democracy for you to bear those particular arms.

    People confuse semi-automatic rifles for fully automatic rifles. I was uneducated myself, until I went out and bought an AR-15 myself and ran through a training class with it. I felt I needed that experience to speak intelligently about it.

    Like any other semi-automatic, it fires one time every time you pull the trigger. It’s not dramatically different from other kinds of rifles, other than it automatically ejects the shell and loads the next round instead of the shooter having to do it manually with a lever, pump or bolt.

    But man, have you SEEN some of those non semi-auto shooters?

    Pump:

    https://youtube.com/shorts/TUSjkwGopdw

    Bolt:

    https://youtube.com/shorts/I5P7qlix-hU

    Lever:
    https://youtube.com/shorts/CHJEwLtmLXw