After the eighth school shooting in seven weeks – some gun control proposals

Posting facts and logic is an attempt to stifle debate???

 

Posting NRA propaganda stifles debate. Endless robotic repetition of NRA talking points stifles debate. Shils for NRA stifle debate. Time to pull the plug.

 

160 bloody pages. Tool beaters.

 

Yeah, I hate when debate is stifled.

You said you wanted grenade/flare launchers banned. How many grenade attacks originating from a semiautomatic rifle are you aware of? You said you wanted folding stocks banned. Do folding stocks make it easier to conceal a rifle when trying to sneak it in somewhere to do a mass shooting? Also, how many mass shootings are you aware of in which the shooter folded the stock in order to conceal it before shooting? And how does a flash suppressor help a mass shooter? I mean, there's no one they would need to be trying to hide their intentions from at that point, right? So why is it logical to accept such illogical thinking when it comes to what should be banned?

Also, given that semiautomatic rifles have been used in 3 of the hundreds of school shootings since 1984, and 18 of the most deadly mass shootings to date (12 of which involved shotguns and pistols along with the semiautomatic rifles), why is your focus on the least used weapon?

And would you consider 3.5 firearm homicides per 100,000 people per year (that's one death every three and a half months) to be statistically significant enough to start a campaign against guns that hold more than six rounds?

Now are you going to stifle debate here by way of ignoring this challenge to your opinion concerning these things?

 

Time to lock the thread.

 

What you refer to as propaganda and talking points is merely our side presenting facts that back up our position.

Part of a debate is having the other side show up and defend their position with facts.

 

Agree - kill this thread. I'm tired of reading the same tired illogical arguments of weak and scared self-victimized men