Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
What’s more likely to happen in a modern society:
20 kindergarteners (kids just like yours) get mowed down with an AR while doing something as innocent as learning to read.
or
we run out of food and the deranged masses are banging on your door for peanut butter?
......
and how about mandatory training and safety to go along with the universal background checks. We’ve all seen it at the range. Half of those people shouldn’t own firearms.
Just to lay a few facts down on the media hysteria over mass shootings
- 2003-07 (pre-zombie apocalypse for those keeping score at home)
- 3.7 million annual home burglaries
- 28% of the time, someone was home when the burglary happened (1.04 million annual)
- 7% of all household burglaries experienced some form of violent crime (simple/aggravated assault, rape, robbery, murder--259,000 annual)
- https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/vdhb.pdf
- 2006-2017 (post-assault weapons ban for those keeping score at home)
- 361 mass killings (defined as 4 victims or more)
- 272 of those involved firearms
- Of the 272, 130 were family/domestic situations; 31 involved robbery; 42 were "other" (biker gang shootout was one of the ones in the "other" category)
- Of 272 mass killings between 2006-17 (not an annual number), 58 were public "bolt from the blue" type attacks in line with what you describe above
- Out of these 58 mass shootings (which encompassed VaTech, Ft Hood, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Newtown, Pulse Nightclub, & Las Vegas among others), 517 lost their lives
- Of mass shooting incidents, semi-auto rifles (the AR-15 clones, or the so called "assault weapons") account for 8.6% of cases. This is roughly the same as shotguns, and far less than the 50% that involve semi-auto handguns.
- USA TODAY | BEHIND THE BLOODSHED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA'S MASS KILLINGS
- USA TODAY | BEHIND THE BLOODSHED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA'S MASS KILLINGS
But the big scary gun focus group tests well, so we'll ignore reality to push an agenda.
I agree that safety/training should be required.