Shooting at Las Vegas casino

What I mean is, HC legislation says that certain intents behind deserve harsher penalties than others.

 

It's an exaggeration. People shot guns repeatedly forever without having ear protectors. A salty old gunnery sergeant on the range might have stuck fired cartridges into his ears as improvised earplugs. Now the use of hearing protection is near universal, especially at the range. Go out to a dove field and look around at the hunters and I bet you don't see a single pair.

Firing a powerful handgun in a confined space will be loud as hell and might make your ears ring for a couple of days, which undoubtedly does some damage. On the other hand, if I'm firing a shotgun in the hallway or bedroom of my house hearing protection will be the least of my worries.

 

I don't mean you specifically, because it's impossible to know what is driving a single individual. (Usually multiple things.) But in the wake of these kind of events, among the archetypes, you get a flood of "above-it-all" people who proudly broadcast that their thoughts and prayers are solely with the victims and their families today.

There is room for disagreement with the following, but here is where I'm at: I don't find it to be the morally superior position.

 

Phil who?

 

This. A twelve gauge pump shotgun is the ideal home defender. You can load it full of birdshot and it is much less likely to go through a wall and hit a loved one while absolutely tearing up an intruder, and as a bonus the average home invader who hears it go "clack-Clack" as I rack the slide is headed for the exit right damn then.

 

I am all for @Dick Whitman and his call for repeal of the 2nd Amendment. It would be the best possible outcome and would ensure our safety from gun crimes in the future.

 

It's a cynical dodge that was most likely crafted years ago by their corporate overlords.

 

Also, another facet of that silencer/suppressor bill:

 

I recently found the marks on my back door where someone used a screwdriver in an attempt to pry it open. If they do that when no one is home, I won't like it but its just stuff. If they do it when my wife is home alone, that's quite another matter.

Then again, that 12 gauge pump gun makes her a lot less vulnerable than she might otherwise be, because if she hears them she'll cut them in half if they come in.

 

The "we can't prevent all gun crimes so why bother?" argument is so weak it's deserving of thoughts and prayers.

 

There is no need to repeal the Second Amendment.

But there is a need to stop allowing any dumbass off the street to purchase military-grade mass-killing machines. ARs serve absolutely no civilian purpose, they ain't used for hunting, they ain't used for protection, they were designed for one purpose, and ONLY one purpose: slaughtering people ..and not just one person, but many people rapidly in military warfare.

If we're gonna keep allowing the dumbfucking-est losers in our society to purchase these killing machines, then we need to stop feigning "shock" and giving phony condolences when these things happen. It's not shocking at all, instead it's a ridiculously predictable outcome.