Walmart Urged To Stop Selling Assault Rifles By More Than 85,000

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Originally Posted by TheDoors

This is actually just what I'm getting at. Why should I have to call a police officer with a gun to stop a man with a gun in my house? The Law Enforcement have judged that the AR-15 and the 12-gauge semi-auto shotgun are effective weapons of defense. Why is it now illegal for me to defend myself the same way as these other civilians?

And that was a very common saying when I walked mean streets with a gun in my hand.

Right, I forget how the dictum goes but the first barrier against law breaking starts with the Citizen not calling the Police.

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Originally Posted by Teen4Christ

While I agree that something must be done about abortion (And I say that as a liberal) that point is totally irrelevant to the discussion at hand. The fact that assault rifles can be so easily purchased is truly disturbing, and it must be to a stop...better we kill one of two evils than bicker about why someone won't stand up to the other.

Interesting choice of words, however, states and cities that have the strictest control also have the highest rate of gun crime. There is nothing evil about a particular type of gun, the evil lies in the user. Think long and hard before chipping away at our Constitution and Bill Of Rights when so many have given so much to preserve it.

Although some indications suggest the American public has reached a breaking point after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting -- yet another tragic mass shooting in a particularly tragic year -- such attacks have long been a part of American history, and some experts say they are happening not much more often than usual.

"There is one not-so-tiny flaw in all of these theories for the increase in mass shootings," James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston, wrote for Boston.com in August. "And that is that mass shootings have not increased in number or in overall body count, at least not over the past several decades."