If you people end up losing the gun argument it will be because you refuse to mount a reality based argument in favor of not doing a damned thing.
No one is arguing in favor of not doing a damn thing. I mentioned a specific way that this most recent school shooting could have been avoided. Using the checkbox of male female or non-binary as a screening tool to weed out people with mental disorders.
If you disagree with that idea, then it would be for you to make the argument that the feelings of non-binary people are more important than the lives of children.
Well don't do anything. You'll all die out eventually and less cowardly people will come forth to talk about guns in real world terms.
I tried to have that conversation with you, and you ignored it. But I'm an optimist, so I will try again.
Here is my issue with Banning so-called assault weapons, apparently defined as guns that look scary to Democrats:
Shooters who are angry at the world, as a school shooter would by definition have to be, will find a way to express their rage. If not an assault weapon then a weapon that is not an assault weapon. Such as a pistol which mass Shooters very often use.
Remember that they never appear to plan to live through the mass shooting. It is basically suicide by cop. Being as self-centered and inward looking as they are, the suicide by cop would be their primary goal. The mass killings they do before that are secondary. But they must kill to achieve their suicide.
Nearly any weapon, other than a single shot weapon can be fired very rapidly. A single shot weapon must be reloaded with a new bullet every time it is fired. A repeater has a mechanism like a lever or a bolt action that Will Chamber a round that is already in the rifles magazine.
Absent fully automatic fire, which weapons are banned from civilian hands already, there is only a little gain in speed from having a semi-automatic firearm over a firearm that must be cocked to be fired. A standard semi-automatic hunting rifle fires just as quickly as a so-called assault weapon.
In in order to stop school shootings by Banning all firearms, you would have to be able to reliably confiscate millions and millions of existing firearms. You would also have to require police to leave their firearms at work when they go home. Children of police officers are just as capable of Rage at the world as children of plumbers.
