soundscream t1_je821rn wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:09 AM

Reply to comment by monkeyfrog987 in Firearms deaths involving preschool-aged children had increased at an alarmingly high rate in the United States in the past decade, but state laws may help curb shooting deaths among young children. by Wagamaga

The Colt-AR15 as it existed was banned, but simply changing to a non-threaded barrel and a non-colapsable stock was all you had to do. Thats like banning red cars with 20inch tires and claiming that blue cars with 21 inch tires are completely different.

My point is the FAWB didn't and wouldn't stop this sort of stuff from happenning.

Uvalde cops were cowards and the ar-15 was an excuse. The ar the person in tennesse had didn't stop those cops from going in.

monkeyfrog987 t1_je87r5o wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:54 AM

My only other statement is I love when people that are so deep in gun culture that they think that knowing the technical difference between these guns is the point and they get lost in the weeds.

Point is that we're the only country on the planet that has this problem and that children are regularly dying in places that they should be safe. The fact that the number one cause of death for children and teens in the United States is guns is completely lost on people like you.

Rather have some sort of semantic conversation about style and type instead of the overall thinking that there's a problem with guns in general.

monkeyfrog987 t1_je87hkx wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:52 AM

I hope you're as adamant about not banning drag, trans, gay people in general, CRT or any of the other things that Republicans want to ban as you are about guns.

If it's not the guns, and banning them won't do anything then the rest of it gets thrown out with the bath water as well.

soundscream t1_je9cmkh wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:10 AM

My comment was just that the assault weapons ban was 99% useless, and that handguns are the bigger issue but are largely ignored.

soundscream t1_je9cu1j wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:13 AM

I made no comment about banning or not banning anything. My only point was just that the assault weapons ban was 99% useless, and that handguns are the bigger issue but are largely ignored.