🇺🇸 Discussion: Guns, The Second Amendment, NRA - Part II

[InCali]

So, law enforcement is advising the public that this guy should be considered armed and dangerous and that if you spot him, you shouldn't approach him.

Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[squeekness]

So, law enforcement is advising the public that this guy should be considered armed and dangerous and that if you spot him, you shouldn't approach him.

Thanks for the heads-up.

You think? Geez....

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[squeekness]

And yet it still won't be enough.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Johnson says it's no use passing new gun laws because there are still cars

Just a few days ago, Mike Johnson was one of the lesser-known members of Congress. Now he’s been catapulted to speaker and into the fierce competition for most loathable House Republican. He ...

www.dailykos.com

 

[squeekness]

Johnson says it's no use passing new gun laws because there are still cars

Just a few days ago, Mike Johnson was one of the lesser-known members of Congress. Now he’s been catapulted to speaker and into the fierce competition for most loathable House Republican. He ...

www.dailykos.com

I'm pretty sure guns have killed more people than have been deliberately run over.

 

[Teelie]

Because the Supreme Courts wants to freeze gun laws to 200 years ago.

I have an idea. Let's freeze gun technology to what it was 200 years ago as well.

 

[squeekness]

I have an idea. Let's freeze gun technology to what it was 200 years ago as well.

Agreed!

 

[Mike5575]

I have an idea. Let's freeze gun technology to what it was 200 years ago as well.

No, that would be stupid.

 

[Teelie]

No more stupid than adhering to a law that is 200 years outdated when guns were literally musket loaded and automatic wasn't even a word.

 

[Herofan]

I have an idea. Let's freeze gun technology to what it was 200 years ago as well.

We could also freeze communication technology to then as well.

 

[Teelie]

I don't know many phones or computers that are used to commit mass murder indiscriminately.

 

[squeekness]

I don't know many phones or computers that are used to commit mass murder indiscriminately.

They are good for spreading lies that encourage some to kill.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NPR -California's ban on assault weapons will remain in effect after judges grant a stay

 

[squeekness]

NPR -California's ban on assault weapons will remain in effect after judges grant a stay

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Inside the Army Factory That Makes AR-15 Ammunition: 4 Takeaways

Commercial rounds are being manufactured on government property. Some have been used in violent crimes, including mass shootings.

www.nytimes.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Mom faces charges after 2-year-old fired her gun inside a Walmart

A 2-year-old boy accidentally fired a gun inside a Walmart, and now his mom is facing charges.

scrippsnews.com

 

[squeekness]

Poor Walmart must be like, "Why us?"

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

The hypocrisy is mind blowing.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

This Senator Has A New Idea To Curb Mass Shootings — And Gun Reformers Are Actually Optimistic

The new bill reflects a more sophisticated understanding of how guns actually work.

www.huffpost.com

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt

The 57-year-old woman denied having any firearms before entering the MRI, according to an adverse event report filed to the FDA.

gizmodo.com

 

[squeekness]

Republicans will fight it to the bitter end as long as those NRA dollars keep rolling in.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn. (Published 2023)

Communities across the U.S. are fueling a secondary arms market by giving seized and surrendered guns to disposal services that destroy one part and resell the rest.

www.nytimes.com

When Flint, Mich., announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms.

"Gun violence continues to cause enormous grief and trauma," said Mayor Sheldon Neeley. "I will not allow our city government to profit from our community's pain by reselling weapons that can be turned against Flint residents."

But Flint's guns were not going to be melted down. Instead, they made their way to a private company that has collected millions of dollars taking firearms from police agencies, destroying a single piece of each weapon stamped with the serial number and selling the rest as nearly complete gun kits. Buyers online can easily replace what's missing and reconstitute the weapon.

Hundreds of towns and cities have turned to a growing industry that offers to destroy guns used in crimes, surrendered in buybacks or replaced by police force upgrades. But these communities are in fact fueling a secondary arms market, where weapons slated for destruction are recycled into civilian hands, often with no background check required, according to interviews and a review of gun disposal contracts, patent records and online listings for firearms parts.

Some public officials and gun safety advocates said they had no clue this was happening. The Rev. Chris Yaw, whose Episcopal church outside Detroit has sponsored buybacks with local officials, said in an interview that he was "aghast and appalled" when told by a reporter how the process works.

"It tells me that our society is set up really well for buying and selling guns," he said, "but it's not set up very well for disposing of them."