re: Anti AR15 people: How is the AR15 functionally different than any other semiauto rifle?

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Personally I can only think of one recent mass shooting where a Glock 17 wouldn't have been as deadly as an AR. But saying the damage done at this high school couldn't have been done with any other weapon is crazy talk.

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Shotgun with buckshot, pair of semi-automatic 9mm handguns, an AWB compliant Mini-14...all could, and have, resulted in shoitings with higher death tolls. People dead set against the AR-type rifles conveniently forget this fact. They don't care either, they only care about the talking points they are parroting.

I heard the ghost guns fire 300 bullets per second out their magazine clips

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Why is it such a pressing issue to ban a weapon that kills a fraction of the 350ish total murders per year committed with rifles but there is zero thought given to banning the pistol? A weapon that kills over 7,000 people per year 

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The reason is the Ar15 is the single most popular platform. If they can ban the ar15, that sets a standard to ban or restrict other weapons. If they can ban a gun where around 10 million people shoot a year that has less than 400 homicides versus a semi auto pistol with thousands then it's an easy win for them at that point. They'll say you can still own a revolver which still has an unfovarable ownership versus homicide rate.

The goal they have is to restrict firearms to the point Americans can't afford or have the credentials to get one. In New York city it can take a good 9 months to buy a simple pistol that can't hold more than 7 rounds and be a costly process and cause people to give up.

One thing they always want banned is standard magazines and tell us 10 rounds is all you need to protect yourself from criminals which are the same people cops will deal with except cops have larger magazine.

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Handgun,

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What type of handgun is fine?

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rifle

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What is an AR-15? A Mini-14?

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shotgun

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Give me a shotgun with buckshot in an enclosed space and I'll kill more people faster than an AR-15.

Of course if you actually were knowledgeable about firearms you'd know this.

You realize that you are comparing AR15 to explosives and the “assault weapon” ban from the 90’s didn’t ban AR15’s — they were allowed just restricted what modifications you could make to them.

So yay or nay?




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We really need a sarcasm font/emoticon for some of you folks

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Civilians do not “Need” these weapons.

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You obviously aren't a weapons expert so who are you to tell civilians what they need and feel comfortable protecting their family with?

So 50 cal sniper rifles are fine for civilallians to have under your guidelines

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’d go even further and propose a gun ownership list,

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Nazi.