where did i connect banning AR's with dramatically lowering gun crime? i never made any such claim. i just said buying an AR 'cuz defense' is pretty stupid and disproportional. most school massacres thesedays are at least facilitated in point by AR's or large rifles. i don't think it's necessary that people should be able to buy them. yes, i know the majority of gun fatalities are isolated incidents, or gang-bangers, or domestic disputes with hand-guns, or whatever. i'm not talking about lowering your national gun-death epidemic. you guys can go nuts and shoot one another all you want. AR's however seem to be a class of weapon that are designed for killing lots of people, all at once. i'm just not sure why a non-military civilian population needs access to them. it's much harder to kill a bunch of school-kids with a single pistol, right? i am talking specifically about trying to minimize incidences of mass-shootings, stuff that's made a lot easier by guns that can shoot... mass bullets.Extra Medium wrote:
Wow Uzi, you are a fucking idiot.
If you are concerned about saving lives or lowering crime, going after AR's is like going after 0.005% of the problem because it's the scariest looking 0.005%. Forget that the other 99.995% of the crimes being committed are happening with handguns (which no one has been calling for a ban on).
but anyway it's an argument that will go nowhere. you're going to keep your AR's, and i don't care that much. from a european perspective, however, like much of the rest of the world, where we don't even feel the need to own a spud-gun for 'personal defense' on our streets/in our homes, the whole idea of buying an AR-15 is laughable. i guess there's a lot of macho-men zimmerman's out there that like to play rambo.