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Posted by Changlong Tsai]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:43:14 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2012/07/onc…

This, my children, is why we won't get any sensible gun control. Driftglass concludes, "When then the day comes that being a member of the NRA triggers the same public gag reflex as being a member of the Klan, things will change. Until then, it won't matter how many Americans are butchered by lunatics packing more firepower than the Continental Army. "


Posted by the outlier]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:17:50 -0500 Arkansas Times
Here's a video of someone shooting an AR-15 fully automatic assault rifle until...well, watch the video and see what happens when a gun heats up. If you get bored, FF to about 1:59

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzfm4pYhIyY

Here's an AK-47 doing the same thing with a drum magazine, it gets super hot after a few 75 round drums:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAohtjG14c

I do want to differentiate between the rifle in the 1st video and the semi-automatic rifle Holmes used. I could buy one exactly like his at any gun store but I don't want it or need one. I can't buy one that shoots like the AK. I don't need more than 15 rounds. If I went back to small game hunting, the 15 shots in my Henry would last me all day.
Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:39:40 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by CyberBiker]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:27:17 -0500 Arkansas Times
There were 17352 gun deaths in the USA in 2011... that kind of dwarfs your 11000 DWI deaths. One difference the gun deaths were for the most part not an accident.

I have stated before that comparing deaths by accident for any cause & death by firearm is a complete waste of time.
Posted by Hackett]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:24:30 -0500 Arkansas Times
Yea and how many caps popped before it jammed ? 90 or 95?
Posted by Hackett]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:02:40 -0500 Arkansas Times
And while I could not easily find it, there was a story about someone in Az (same person? don't know) who had a gun, but chose not to shoot because he was concerned that he did not know who to shoot and might have shot an innocent bystander. Those who are trained generally know what they're doing.

But then I was once a trained law enforcement officer with a gun. And shooting amidst the chaos would have been a bad choice in either situation.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:33:43 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by srh]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:16:48 -0500 Arkansas Times
In your small world, maybe, but there are hundreds of thousands of good, decent, law-abiding citizens who own millions of semi-automatic and fully automatic weapons courtesy of the Second Amendment, who admire their histories, their designs and workmanship, and who enjoying shooting them with their families and friends. Events like the one at the link below go on all over the United States every month of every year, and there are no mass killings taking place.

There were almost 11,000 people killed in 2009 due to alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents. Not only is there relatively no outrage about that, but we continue to condone driving under the influence.

I'm contrasting public opinion of alcohol-related traffic deaths with that of mass shootings to point out how political opinion of Second Amendment issues is the fuel stoking the outrage we're seeing on this blog and elsewhere, not genuine concern for stopping the murder of innocents.

http://youtu.be/-KOgOEvhrbw
Posted by Drackman]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:51:52 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:27:33 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-01-11…

But he would have...................
Posted by Vanessa]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:58:27 -0500 Arkansas Times

It hasn't happened because all these mass killings happened in "GUN FREE ZONES", the theater was posted "NO GUNS". Also the city of Aurora has the strictest gun laws in the state of Colorado, the state has sued them about preempting state law on guns. Why do you think these nuts pick these kinds of places to shoot up? They know that until the police show up they will have no armed opposition.
Posted by srh]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:44:35 -0500 Arkansas Times
Posted by Nanc]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:38:52 -0500 Arkansas Times
If some sum bitch needs to buy bullets he can go buy them face to face with another human who might decide as crazy as he's acting he doesn't need no more bullets. Plus even Helen Keller would know a person was up to bad bad things if they bought 6000 rounds of anything at her gun shop.

Why do we make it easy to kill people? Who besides the weapons manufacturers, the NRA, street gangs, drug smugglers, and deranged killers with a plan benefits from easy weapon or ammunition sales? Don't any of you gun nuts realize it could be your kids sitting in the next theater hit by a heavily armed crazy person?

Oh, I guess you're too caught up in fantasizing that you or our armed kid would do a triple somersault in midair and fill the perp with your lead....like you see on TV and at the movies all the time. Notice that hasn't happened in any of the string of mass killings at the hands of crazy people? The old man in eLwood's video scared off the bad guys but if he was really shooting it appears he didn't hit the bad guys at point blank range.

Americans.....too damn many Americans are fantasizing us down the toilet or into the grave. Believing God works thru Mitt Romney but not thru the Kenyan Socialist is crazy. Believing Republicans can end taxes is crazy. Believing Republicans can end oversight and regulation and allow absolute FREE TRADE is crazy. Believing your gun will fix everything is crazy. Believing Arkansas's delegation to Congress helps America is crazy. Believing everyone has to be armed is crazy. Allowing anyone to buy cop killing weapons or ammunition is crazy. Making it easy for anyone to amass 6000 rounds of ammunition is crazy. STOP BEING CRAZY, adult-up and leave your fantasies in the bedroom where they belong.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:13:37 -0500 Arkansas Times
"Whether this tragedy was preventable is debatable. But what is not debatable is that the degree of mayhem could have been mitigated by a serious effort to control the excesses of ever-greater firepower. There is no justification for current policies that aid and abet mass murderers."

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/aurora_won…

Posted by Snapback]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:53:06 -0500 Arkansas Times Assault weapons are fully automatic firearms, semi automatic firearms are also purchased with a background check, just like a pistol. That is if you buy your firearms legally like most of us do. You can't stop the criminal from obtaining altered firearms to use in their crimes. But , nconcealed handgun license holders are there to protect themselves and you if he need arises. Stop depending on police, their firearm is for their protection , not yours.
Posted by clay pigeon]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:16:12 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by srh]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:13:00 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:47:09 -0500 Arkansas Times a computer cafe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjH3ZMUks1o…

Tell us, what's wrong with this picture?
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:38:40 -0500 Arkansas Times
How many mass killings have there been with flintlocks? Your 600 years of firearms & 200 years of second amendment have little in common with death by assault weapon.

I've no problem with weapons for hunting & for personal protection but assault weapons have no function but mass killing. If the NRA and their ilk don't gain enough common sense to bend a little with the current climate of mass killing they're going to lose a lot more than assault weapons. The NRA's all or nothing could cost most.

I've got shotguns,rifles & handguns for personal protection & those uses necessary on a farm & ranch. I don't want to lose them for macho stupidity because the NRA wants a bigger gun.
Posted by Hackett]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:26:31 -0500 Arkansas Times
In my readings of Federalist Papers or biographies of Framers I never saw any indications that the Founders were concerned with target practice competitions, hunting or collectors of old firearms.

My interpretations of the whole reason for keeping and bearing arms was a control on the power of the state by citizens.

I am always amused that collecting or sports are insinuated as the reason the 2nd Amendment was included.

The Redcoats had guns and the Colonists feared the King disarming them and the Americas could be subjigated and plundered like Africa and the rest of the British Empire had been.

All indications of the reason for the right to keep and bear arms was to counteract crooked abusive officials and a gov't attempting to repress the rights of Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition etc.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:55:55 -0500 Arkansas Times
When the Constitution was written, the available gun was a musket. You got your one shot and then it became a baseball bat. It takes someone as nutty as Scalia to see that "firearm" in that context translates directly into semi-automatice machine gun or assult weapon. Probably also could be construed to mean small personal tactical nuclear weapon. Why didn't Scalia just ask Madison and Jefferson what they meant since his thinking seems to show that he was there at the time?
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:12:26 -0500 Arkansas Times
We went through that already. Pay attention. This is day four.

About your "deep down" foolishness, "you liberals all know that gun laws would have done nothing to prevent this from happening."

How could we "liberals" or any other beings in this nation ever know that?
We've never had gun laws that are truly restrictive, like hunting weapons only with background checks and restrictive licenses plus mandatory training.

If you followed these "liberal" threads you would have read that most of us conceded that America is too far gone to reign in the proliferation of guns. We will continue to have our semi-annual gun massacres so we can all be free and we can "at the end of the day" mourn another gun massacre year after year.
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Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:06:50 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Snapback]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:34:04 -0500 Arkansas Times
And I'm kinda of the belief that when folks say stupid shit, the best response is to point and laugh. They have already demonstrated that they are not open to rational argument so what other recourse is left?
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:30:34 -0500 Arkansas Times