I saw a bit of meet the press this morning and Senator Schumer from New York was on, beating the gun-ban drum. One comment he made more than once was that as a nation we are facing murders of multiple people by assault rifles on an average of once a month. That kind of misleading statement influences a lot of people. There are many people in America who would be at least somewhat neutral on this but hear this kind of **** and believe it.
Part of our problem at the present time is that there are many, many people who simply don't understand full auto vs. semi and have been led to believe that the so-called assault rifles are responsible for some sort of epidemic of murder.
I keep hearing about bad guys "spraying" bullets, and "rapid fire" pistol magazines, and that an AR-15 is identical to a "military rifle" and so on.
I wish we could try and get some accurate information out to people. In truth, the actual homicide rates, by weapon used, and other true data are on our side and that is a lot more likely to persuade people than the same old 2nd Amendment and self-defense arguments. People have heard those enough that they tune them out. We cannot make our side persuasive by meeting anti-gun hyperbole with pro-gun hyperbole and well-worn slogans.
We need to have non-gun folks understand that semi-auto rifles and shotguns have been used for hunting (for example) for years and except for magazine capacity, there is not much difference between grandpa's Auto 5 or 30-06 BAR and an AR-15. We need them to understand that these wackos will commit their crimes no matter what tools we restrict or ban.
FWIW, the worst killing of young kids at a school in this country was committed many years ago with dynamite. One of the most gun-restrictive counties in the world, England, had its most recent "mass" shooting occur in 2010, long after Britain banned all of the "evil" guns.
The guy in Aurora had 30 homemade grenades in his home. Had he not been able to take a rifle to the theater, would he not have taken his grenades? What would the death toll have been then? Police say he had enough explosives in his apartment to turn an entire floor of the building into an inferno, if not destroy the building.
We need for people to understand these things.
Part of our problem at the present time is that there are many, many people who simply don't understand full auto vs. semi and have been led to believe that the so-called assault rifles are responsible for some sort of epidemic of murder.
I keep hearing about bad guys "spraying" bullets, and "rapid fire" pistol magazines, and that an AR-15 is identical to a "military rifle" and so on.
I wish we could try and get some accurate information out to people. In truth, the actual homicide rates, by weapon used, and other true data are on our side and that is a lot more likely to persuade people than the same old 2nd Amendment and self-defense arguments. People have heard those enough that they tune them out. We cannot make our side persuasive by meeting anti-gun hyperbole with pro-gun hyperbole and well-worn slogans.
We need to have non-gun folks understand that semi-auto rifles and shotguns have been used for hunting (for example) for years and except for magazine capacity, there is not much difference between grandpa's Auto 5 or 30-06 BAR and an AR-15. We need them to understand that these wackos will commit their crimes no matter what tools we restrict or ban.
FWIW, the worst killing of young kids at a school in this country was committed many years ago with dynamite. One of the most gun-restrictive counties in the world, England, had its most recent "mass" shooting occur in 2010, long after Britain banned all of the "evil" guns.
The guy in Aurora had 30 homemade grenades in his home. Had he not been able to take a rifle to the theater, would he not have taken his grenades? What would the death toll have been then? Police say he had enough explosives in his apartment to turn an entire floor of the building into an inferno, if not destroy the building.
We need for people to understand these things.
