Why try something that already failed? This is the same argument socialists and communists use. The only reason why it failed in every other country that tried is because they didn't perfected it. So let's try it here. The definition of insanity.
I like to try things that at least hasn't failed before when others tried it. By your logic, let's try putting your head on a rail as a frieght train is going by and see if the wieght of the train will crush it. Others tried and fail but that doesn't mean you'll fail.
So the title of this thread is a misrepresentation of what the article said. Mass shootings were greatly reduced. That was the point of the law. If it didn't reduce other types of shootings that is besides the point.
How did a law that banned nothing other than cosmetics "greatly reduce" mass shootings? No AR was confiscated. New ARs simply bypassed the silly restrictions. The number of semiautomatic, magazine fed rifles increased every single year of the AWB.
Good post. But gun banners don't care about facts. Everything suggests that the resident paid gun banners in the forum don't even read short posts, they just spout personal attacks and stupidity.
Mass shootings were already decreasing long before the firearm-related restrictions were implemented into law in the nation of Australia. Beyond that matter, the united states attempting to implement the same firearm-related restrictions as the nation of Australia, would not yield similar results in the united states.
I'm talking about Australia's ban on all semi-auto rifles. Such a law would not be easy to bypass in the US.
A federal buy back ? How many trillions of dollars are we talking about ? Who's going to pay for it ? The 55% who actually pay individual income taxes ? I'll just pick one year, 2013 and there were over 10 million rifles sold in America thay year and most of those rifles were black scary looking rifles that sold from $700 to over $1,000 each. There are over 300 million guns owned by law abiding citizens in America.
You'd think so, but various states are trying. The most commonly used firearm type in mass shootings is the semiautomatic handgun. Australia still allows those. New Zealand allows ownership of semi-auto rifles, yet they don't have any mass shootings at all.
Well I'm not a politically correct guy. When I see a spade, I call it a spade. When I see a black scary rifle, I call it a rifle.
Yet whenever I’ve insulted a conservative they run to the moderator like a little school girl to tattle on me.