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In reply to the discussion: OK, ban the AR-15, by shape and color. I'm on board. [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)People have been robbing and killing each other for about a million years, and I don't think getting rid of guns will make much of a dent in that. But it makes for good political theater. Advocacy groups (lobbyists) can get on board and fling accusations at each other. Studies can be conducted to see who is doing what to whom. Preachers, politicians, pundits, posers and piss ants will swing their sanctimony over their heads and they all make a pile of money doing it. But nobody will say word one about the disparity of force between a two hundred pound aggressor and a one hundred pound defender.
It takes about two seconds to switch a mag. An AR15 is just a semiautomatic rifle. There are about a zillion of both in the United States. I can't imagine anyone actually doing anything about them when they are that popular. I expect the most they will do is outlaw something nobody wants anyway. And after all that strum and drang and the incineration of forty tons of political capital some wisenheimer in marketing will come up with a variation on the theme of the same old thing that just barely skirts the law and we can start all over again.