Comment on Harris, Walz Push AR-15 Ban in First Joint Campaign Appearance
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 month agoWasn’t the synagogue a pistol?
In any case, it’s the most popular rifle in America, just by sheer rate it’s going to be used more.
Most gun homicides are done with handguns. This is completely off topic, unless you think mass shooting victims are the only real victims or something.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 1 month ago
It’s going to be used more for many reasons beyond simply being “popular”:
cbsnews.com/…/ar-15-mass-shootings-60-minutes-202…
It’s literally designed to kill people. Not hunt, not for sport. For killing.
It’s one thing to defend yourself with a gun, I’m not advocating for getting rid of all guns or stopping people from owning a gun. I am however, for a ban on guns designed to kill large amounts of people in a short amount of time, especially when it has been the tool for every mass shooting that has bigger death counts than any others prior to AWB.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Even if that was true, so fucking what?
I deny your fundamental assumptions here, that something should be banned because it can be used to cause a lot of damage.
Murder is illegal, it shouldn’t matter the tool used.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Your lack of empathy is showing.
zeppo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The line is drawn somewhere. Civilians can’t purchase automatic weapons or say, hand grenades. Do you think we should be able to?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They can actually. US Law allows the purchase of both.
Both require a background check and a tax stamp.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Yes we can actually. You just have to jump through a few hoops.