(02-12-2024, 12:27 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(02-12-2024, 11:46 AM)Sneakers Wrote: What's the difference in your scenario between an AR-15 and any one of a hundred semi-auto handguns, other than the fact the assault rifle is big and scary looking?  There is a mental health crisis spreading throughout the country and restrictions on firearms will not solve the underlying problem.  

The simple fact is it's impossible for us to know the full intent of the Founders and even if we did, is strict unwavering adherence the solution or a path to self-destruction? 

I don't believe it's fair to suggest they failed.  There's obviously no way they could have envisioned the world we live in today and crafted language to deal with burgeoning technology and social changes that wouldn't be seen for more than two hundred years.

I never said they failed.

I'm saying modern times need modern measures. 

Debating about how many different weapons need closer regulation is not what I was getting at - but yes I'm aware of the high capacity magazines available to all types of handguns and rifles (short and long)
 That was not my point. 

I was alluding to keeping that [BLEEP] out of the hands of the wrong people or at least [BLEEP] trying to do that. 
Currently - we are not. Many of the folks responsible for mass shootings in the past ten years have thrown up multiple red flags with their mental health history, their dealings with law enforcement, and for some their documented,blatant, and violent hate-speech. 

Many of them legally acquired weapons after such red flags appeared. 

That ^ is some dumb [BLEEP] we should be making more difficult for the whackos. 

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As I mentioned in another thread - my brother is a gun dealer. The "big and scary AR" thing you're attempting isn't going anywhere with me. I don't care about Joe-blow's perception of assault rifles. I care about limiting mass shootings.  I've hog hunted with an AR.  (My browning .308 is just as effective and slightly more accurate)