OT. No AR15s

[Dean Hoffman]

<https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/29/surveillance-footage-shows-nashville-shooter-used-a-carbine-which-fires-pistol-rounds-not-an-ar-15/>

OR. <https://tinyurl.com/mr2st5e6>

Several people are dead regardless but can the news types get things right?
I guess Biden & Co. asked for flags to fly at half staff because of the killings. How about the people who the tornadoes killed? How many died in Chicago because of gang warfare this weekend?

[Scott Lurndal]

You can look it up. There were 5 murders in Chicago in the last 7 days, which
is less than half the total from the same week last year. And, of course, that
number cannot be compared directly to any other city unless you adjust for the
population size as well (2.6 million for Chicago, where that is one murder for
each 500,000 people).

https://home.chicagopolice.org/statistics-data/crime-statistics/

Louisianna (A red state to be sure) has the highest murder rate
in the country.

[micky]

In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:49:28 -0700 (PDT), Dean

Hoffman <dean...@gmail.com> wrote:

><https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/29/surveillance-footage-shows-nashville-shooter-used-a-carbine-which-fires-pistol-rounds-not-an-ar-15/>
>
>OR. <https://tinyurl.com/mr2st5e6>
>
> Several people are dead regardless but can the news types get things right?

How do you know it's breitbart that got it right? She had 3 guns with
her, two long guns.

And even if she didn't use an AR15, lots of terrorist murderers have
used them. One report is that the reason police didn't go into the
school at Uvalde, while children continued to get murdedred was that the
gunman had an AR15 and the police were afraid of it.

> I guess Biden & Co. asked for flags to fly at half staff because of the killings. How about the people who the tornadoes killed?

Stupid comparisons like this make me distrust everything you say. if
you don't know why it's a stupid comparison, ask me.

> How many died in Chicago because of gang warfare this weekend?

They have done lots of things to stop gang warfare and to commemorate
innocents who are killed in it. Of course the same people who make it
easy for the woman at the top to get guns also make it easy for gang
members to get guns. They are 2 for 2 groups in getting people killed.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Not sure what you are saying. Tornadoes cause gun killings? If we
eliminate tornadoes there would be no shootings?

I have no idea how you are connecting a natural disaster to humans
killing humans. One can be stopped, the other cannot be.

[rbowman]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:33:17 -0400, micky wrote:

> How do you know it's breitbart that got it right? She had 3 guns with
> her, two long guns.

The magazine on the carbine in the surveillance video is the giveaway.

[rbowman]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:58:09 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> I have no idea how you are connecting a natural disaster to humans
> killing humans. One can be stopped, the other cannot be.

Since Cain allegedly killed Abel stopping humans from killing each other
seems to have had limited success.

[T]

This is not about public safety or they would be
after bats, knives, drunk drivers. matches etc..

This is about their own safety. They do not want
"insurrection weapons" out there that could take
out their beloved "Dictatorship of the Proletariat".
They do not want the tree of freedom watered with
their own blood.

[T]

So you only care about the "type" of gun, not
public safety. "Insurrection Weapons" have
to go from anyone that might be of a mind
to overthrow your beloved "Dictatorship of
the Proletariat".

And only from honest citizens. Never mind the
countless lives saved by AR style weapons or
any other firearm for that matter.

Oh and only the government and criminals should
have guns, especially when the government itself
starts to become criminals as well. End justifies
the means?

[Dean Hoffman]

Neither will be stopped completely. Humans will kill for power and/or money. Money and power are the same thing in a way. We kill for love too. It has gone on for centuries.
The people murdered at the school are victims as are their survivors.
The people killed by the tornadoes in the Deep South are victims as are their survivors.
The survivors will grieve then try to get on with their lives. The tornado survivors will actually
have life tougher. They've probably lost homes, jobs, and whole communities that would help them get on with life.
One nice thing I saw on tv was all of the people showing up to help in Mississippi. TV showed a lady telling this kid he better show up at the temporary food kitchen she and others had set up. They weren't matching colors by the way.
Flags at half staff for the six or so seems like a political stunt. It should be done only for a truly national disaster. It should be done after the death of a national leader. It cheapens the significance if we do it for less.

[Ed Pawlowski]

On 3/29/2023 10:40 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:

> Flags at half staff for the six or so seems like a political stunt. It should be done only for a truly national disaster. It should be done after the death of a national leader. It cheapens the significance if we do it for less.
>

Perhaps we have to do things like that to bring attention and come up
with ways to prevent it from happening again.

[Bob F]

But GOPers don't give a damn about our kids dying. It is more important
to them to worship their god, the NRA.

[Ed Pawlowski]

You'll like this from USA Today commentary

https://tinyurl.com/mpuzcrbt


COLUMNISTS
Please stop asking me to address gun violence, I'm busy banning books
How could you suggest we consider something as useless as banning
assault rifles when children across the country could, at any moment, be
exposed to a book called 'And Tango Makes Three'?
Rex Huppke
USA TODAY

Hello, I’m a Republican lawmaker, and while I’m heartbroken over
Monday’s horrific elementary school shooting in Nashville, I’d
appreciate it if people would stop asking me to do something to prevent
such tragedies from happening again.

I’m a busy person, and there are many important issues I and my
colleagues are addressing in our quest to make the world a safe place
for children. For example, books. They are often bad. Lawmakers like
myself at the local, state and federal level are doing everything we can
to make sure dangerous books don’t wind up in the hands of children.

Ban guns? We're busy banning books, thank you very much

[Ralph Mowery]

In article <gS6VL.1740013$iS99....@fx16.iad>, e...@snet.xxx says...

>
> Perhaps we have to do things like that to bring attention and come up
> with ways to prevent it from happening again.
>
>

Along thr line of what Biden has said about home protection all we need
to do is let the principal keep a double barrel shotgun in his office.
When something hapens he takes out the shotgun and shoots it out the
window and the prolem is solved.

Easy for someone to say that is going to be protected for life by the SS
agents with full automatic guns.

[T]

You an start by arming the staff and teachers.

Next allow victim's families to sue "gun free zones"

Then discontinue subsidizing fatherless homes.

And dammit, enforce the law. Put bad guys in
jail after you catch them. Soros' DA can go to hell.

[Peeler]

On 30 Mar 2023 00:44:22 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

>> I have no idea how you are connecting a natural disaster to humans
>> killing humans. One can be stopped, the other cannot be.
>
> Since Cain allegedly killed Abel stopping humans from killing each other
> seems to have had limited success.

Do you have to smear EVERY topic with your idiotic "cool" blather, abnormal
bigmouth?

--
Another one of the resident senile bigmouth's idiotic "cool" lines:
"If you're an ax murderer don't leave souvenir photos on your phone."
"MID: <k7ssc7...@mid.individual.net>"

[T]

Stop blaming us for what you do.

[T]

This has nothing to do with public safety. It is
disarming honest citizens to guard again Lefties
lives being used to water the tree of freedom.

[Oscar]

Calm down, Bob. Think of it as a delayed abortion.

[Pepe Ron Cini]

Something ain't right here.

What is causing the sudden uptick in transgenders?
Environmental toxins?
GMO crops grown in nutrient-depleated soil?
Pharmaceutical side-effects?

[Cindy Hamilton]

The fact that they don't need to be as afraid as they used to be
to say what they've always been?

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Slevin]

What you state, that's a fact?

[trader_4]

On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 8:48:30 PM UTC-4, T wrote:
> On 3/29/23 13:49, Dean Hoffman wrote:
> > <https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/29/surveillance-footage-shows-nashville-shooter-used-a-carbine-which-fires-pistol-rounds-not-an-ar-15/>
> >
> > OR. <https://tinyurl.com/mr2st5e6>
> >
> > Several people are dead regardless but can the news types get things right?
> > I guess Biden & Co. asked for flags to fly at half staff because of the killings. How about the people who the tornadoes killed? How many died in Chicago because of gang warfare this weekend?
> This is not about public safety or they would be
> after bats, knives, drunk drivers. matches etc..

Seems very likely that if bats, knives and matches were being used
in an increasing number of horrific mass murders, there would be a
focus on those and what can be done. Drunk drivers were causing a
lot of unnecessary deaths and about 30 years ago that came under
scrutiny, drunk driving laws were changed, DWI limit lowered, enforcement,
including DWI checkpoints on roads put into place. It had a significant
effect on lowering the DWI fatality rates.

>
> This is about their own safety. They do not want
> "insurrection weapons" out there that could take
> out their beloved "Dictatorship of the Proletariat".
> They do not want the tree of freedom watered with
> their own blood.

Right, and Covid restrictions in 2020 were not about saving lives
reducing the spread so hospitals were not overloaded, but just
about some politicians on doing it for the joy of controlling people.
Give us a break.

[trader_4]

Imagine what the Jan 6 insurrection would have been like had DC allowed weapons
in public. That's the kind of pond scum that has overthrowing the govt in mind.

>
> And only from honest citizens.

Like the Jan 6 insurrectionists?

Never mind the
> countless lives saved by AR style weapons or
> any other firearm for that matter.

I would bet that the percentage of lives saved using an AR-15
is very small. It's actually a terrible choice for a self-defense weapon.
If you know as much as you claim to know about guns, you'd know
that.

>
> Oh and only the government and criminals should
> have guns, especially when the government itself
> starts to become criminals as well. End justifies
> the means?

Ends justifying the means, that's what we saw from your bunch on Jan 6.
And instead of being horrified by what happened and condemning those that
did it, Trump just honored the Jan 6 scum at his first campaign rally. And
he's threatening more "death and destruction" if he's indicted.

[trader_4]

Or we could start by requiring that each purchase of a firearm requires
a permit issued by the local police chief after a field background check.
Many of these mass shootings could have been prevented if that was in
place. In some cases, the police had plenty of information on the person
in their own files that would have resulted in the permit being denied.
Instead, in most states, someone where their family, friends, co-workers
knows they are not right, where they are undergoing mental health therapy,
where they have records of 20 calls to the house for violence, just walk in
to a gun store and buy all the guns they want. And the NRA and right wing
nuts say that's just how it has to be.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Sure is. Gay kids were often beat up, ridiculed and bullied but those
days are mostly past. Some still think it is criminal and want to pray
the gay away.

[Bob F]

They really have become appalling. Ban the GOP!.

[Bob F]

And many others still want to kill it away. Despite that fact that it
has always been there.

[Bob F]

You mean trumps SS agents?

[Cindy Hamilton]

I wonder if Slevin knows what a question mark is for.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Ralph Mowery]

In article <0d95bbe3-c7b0-45a8...@googlegroups.com>,
tra...@optonline.net says...

>
> Seems very likely that if bats, knives and matches were being used
> in an increasing number of horrific mass murders, there would be a
> focus on those and what can be done. Drunk drivers were causing a
> lot of unnecessary deaths and about 30 years ago that came under
> scrutiny, drunk driving laws were changed, DWI limit lowered, enforcement,
> including DWI checkpoints on roads put into place. It had a significant
> effect on lowering the DWI fatality rates.
>
>
>
>

The DD deaths have gone down from about 20,000 to 10,000 per year that
is still way too many. I have not looked at the drug death while
driving but bet they have gone way up.

Too bad that the 2 nd DD convection will not require a 20 year stay in
jail or some other very, very stiff sentence, even hanging would be my
choice as in many other crimes would be for me.

[Frank]

Yes, you have always been with us.

[Ralph Mowery]

In article <1acfebc2-006c-4707...@googlegroups.com>,
tra...@optonline.net says...

>
> I would bet that the percentage of lives saved using an AR-15
> is very small. It's actually a terrible choice for a self-defense weapon.
> If you know as much as you claim to know about guns, you'd know
> that.
>
>
>

It all depends on the situation. Everything has its plus and minus.

I have two of them and they are the 16 inch barrel length. Slightly
long for the house. However when loaded with varmit type bullets (
which are really deadly to people) they are very safe in the house
compaired to the 9 mm handgun .

the 9 mm will often pass through many walls in the house. The ar15 with
varmet bullets tend to come apart after one wall and not penetrate the
2nd wall. Not hearsay but actual tests I have done. Even the parts that
come apart do not seem to be a very great danger unless hit in the face
(eyes).

[Frank]

Back in the day, Biden wanted to ban all semi automatic weapons which
would have included my Remington 1100 shotgun. It was responsible for
the death of thousands of clay pigeons.