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This is not true. All guns are not created equal.
How do you explain the states with the strongest gun laws having less gun violence than those with weaker laws?
Chicago has very strict gun laws so I heard . People get shot every day in Chicago almost. Most of the cities riddled with crime are run by Liberal mayors .
Chicago is actually a perfect example of why there needs to be stricter gun control laws on a national level. The majority of guns used in Chicago crimes come from outside the city and from across the border in Indiana where gun laws are less restrictive. If there were uniform gun control laws that required thorough background checks, licensing, registration, training, etc., then the number of shootings in Chicago as well as schools and other public places throughout the country would drop substantially.
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No, not all guns of the same caliber are the same. A longer barrel for example will yield higher velocities than a gun with a shorter barrel. A rifled barrel is more accurate than a smooth bore. Some are single shot, some semi automatic. Some accept detachable high capacity magazines others do not, etc..
Again no where in my post did I say you can't go hunting, read again. People hunt here with gun laws.
I saw some time ago a video and they showed this graph (would love to get my hands on that graph) that the amount of gun violence, death and injury correlated to the number of guns in the country. It didn't matter who was said to own them, it was the number of guns easily available. Who do you think tops that list on number of guns and the injury and death rates from them? The US- surprise surprise. This didn't just cover gangs or mass shootings or robberies and such but accidental shootings as well.
The way I see it, as a law abiding citizen, any inconveniences that additional gun control measures may create are worth it because they will reduce gun violence and save lives.
Yes they will save criminal lives . The law abiding citizen with a musket has no chance against a felon/felons with a semi automatic firearm.
You are correct that some are more accurate and can hold more ammunition. However, I know of no smooth bore rifles. In fact "rifling" is the spiral grooves in a barrel that make a gun a "rifle"
You should have worded it this way to begin with instead of saying "All guns of the same caliber are the same...."
I know what AR stands for and I still want the AR-15 along with similar "assault style" weapons banned, they have no place in our society. In addition to a ban on "assault style" weapons limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds, or better yet 5, on all other semiautomatic weapons.
There are far more superior rifles available for hunting and if the AR15 is banned, most serious hunters wouldn't object.
If this is the case, then why aren't the places such as Indiana (with their less restrictive gun laws) having the crime problem that Chicago is having?
maybe maybe not because just banning something does not make them go away drugs are plenty proof of that we have had a drug war for decades, yet still lose 1000s of people a year directly or indirectly to drugs. They tried banning alcohol lasted less than 20 years because it did nothing but make things worse when half of all inmates were in for booze related issues.
In 2020, Indiana had the 17th-highest gun death rate in the country and exported crime guns at the 11th-highest rate.
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No a ban would not! Just because she had an assault weapon meant only that is what she had available. She could have done the same thing with another type of weapon. We had an assault weapon ban in the past and a government study showed it had no measurable affect on crime. An assault weapon was not the murderer here a mentally unstable woman planned and executed this horrible crime. A red flag law might have helped if someone had noticed the warnings. Parents should have been more proactive from reports I’ve heard in this case.
