Well, if you assume that we can’t do what other countries do and BAN THE ASSAULT WEAPONS, then there isn’t a way to prevent killings. 🤷♀️
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It can’t be done while republikkkans are in charge
jul 30, 2025, 2:21 am • 2 0 • view
Or democrats apparently.
jul 30, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly
jul 30, 2025, 1:53 am • 15 0 • view
New York already did.
jul 30, 2025, 2:03 am • 3 0 • view
The problem is that it's a patchwork of laws that vary state-by-state.
jul 30, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
jul 30, 2025, 2:46 am • 1 0 • view
Was he from New York tho.
jul 30, 2025, 2:34 am • 3 0 • view
Like I am not even a gun control person but this is a joke of an argument you think is such a banger you've dropped it several times in this thread. Realize this is an L
jul 30, 2025, 2:35 am • 3 0 • view
When did New York secede and become a nation? Man, I need to stay up on the news. The data on this issue is really clear: because we have too many guns, we have mass shootings. And the reason we have too many guns is because we invented a new belief about Constitutional rights, about 50 years ago.
jul 30, 2025, 2:29 am • 52 2 • view
And what was the Constitutional ruling before that, because you are going to like it even less. Should I spoil it for you?
jul 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 3 0 • view
In the early 30's this was legal. It isn't now. youtu.be/gim9GshnPMU?...
jul 30, 2025, 12:01 pm • 1 0 • view
The previous Supreme Court standard was ONLY weapons of war were protected.
jul 30, 2025, 1:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Prior to Heller (2008), the Supreme Court standard did not affirm any individual right to own or carry firearms. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont... Prior to 2008, the short history of Supreme Court decisions on firearms laws was basically just one case, upholding a ban on sawed-off shotguns.
jul 30, 2025, 4:33 pm • 2 0 • view
A ruling that said it was OK to ban short barrel shotguns because they WERENT COMMONLY USED AS WEAPONS OF WAR. Even though that was also a mistake because they WERE commonly used. Which IS ruling it’s an individual right.
jul 30, 2025, 4:38 pm • 1 0 • view
You think the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of RIGHTS isn’t about protecting RIGHTS. Despite that being the ENTIRE purpose of it?
jul 30, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Look, I get it: you're a 21st century gun nut, and you think 21st century gun nut thoughts, like a wholesale embrace of the late-20th/early-21st century revision of the basic interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. It's ahistorical, but you do you. I'm not trying to change your mind, here.
jul 30, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
How is it ahistorical when your own link backs up exactly what I said? There were 0 major Supreme Court rulings on it between 1908 and Heller & both supported the right of people to have guns, with the 1908 ruling specifically supporting weapons of war.
jul 30, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
50 years ago was 1970. I was alive but not following the US news. Did you see private citizens back then legally buying and storing machine guns? I thought that ended under Prohibition, but I'm not a historian or an American so I could be wrong!
jul 30, 2025, 4:37 am • 7 0 • view
The last time a private citizen could legally buy a new machine gun in America was 1986, some of them that were registered by then are still in circulation and there are some extra steps to getting them; and the prices have gotten VERY high.
jul 30, 2025, 4:43 am • 0 0 • view
Actually Gun Control in the US was historically driven by racism, see Ronald Reagan passing California's first gun control laws back when he was governor of Cali
jul 30, 2025, 5:49 am • 16 0 • view
In “recent times” very much yes. Most “gun control” only makes guns more expensive, which isn’t that progressive. Of course the really wealthy & corporations, can have equipped security & body guards
jul 30, 2025, 5:55 am • 3 0 • view
Well the first gun control laws in the US were passed after the civil war in the South iirc and evidence suggests they were just never enforced on whites as a means of disenfranchising black people.
jul 30, 2025, 5:58 am • 13 0 • view
It is also true that there was a lot of that after the Civil War also. So you have me there, rereading what you wrote, you did use Reagan as an example, not as the 1st example.
jul 30, 2025, 6:12 am • 6 0 • view
We banned them once, we can do it again, just need to get a lot more nazis out of office Ironically, the original bill passed in 1994 was supported by Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, along with several congressional repubs
jul 30, 2025, 3:00 am • 2 0 • view