High school shooting in Parkland FL

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AR-15. I don't know guns, but tat sounds frightening.

A civilian version of the M-16, stripped of its capability for automatic fire. It's a good rifle, and, for instance, ranchers use it to peg predators at distance because it has a high muzzle velocity and is therefore very accurate when properly sighted-in.

It's a semi-automatic firearm, meaning that one pull of the trigger gets one round downrange, and uses the exhaust gas to chamber the next round.

Not terribly different from the Remington .22 I was taught to shoot on when I was a kid, except that the round has a higher charge.

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Fuck rawstory and fuck Kimmel. Arguing gun control doesn't answer the underlying question as to why anyone would even act out to commit murder. There's a culture of violence in this country that's been partially created by Hollywood and the gaming industry among other influences. There's been a deterioration of morals and self discipline among the youth with no fear of consequences. Like minded Jack Asses like you with your Fucking Cops threads and your radical disdain for lawful order only works to encourage a continued culture of violence here.

You seem to forget that there was an abundance of violence in this country long before Hollywood and video games and other influences.

Your point may be apt, but the fact is that these sorts of mass murders have increased in frequency over the last, say, 20 years.

I'm not blaming games or modern mass culture; I don't know why these are happening more often. But the fact is that they are.

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-When sandy hook happened and we did nothing..literally nothing..that would address something like sandy hook....the gun control debate as a debate about how to control guns was over.  Caput.  Strangled in it's crib.  What we do now is conform to the status quo of political theater.

Now it;s not about guns.  It;s about "kids these days", and "morals"..."poor philosophies" and "social issues" and "corporations".  Jesus christ it sounds like a campaign rally.

Exactly. If 20 kids and six adults had no effect, what will? If 58 dead and well over 800 wounded in Las Vegas doesn't change the talking points, what can?

Seems to me that "now's not the time to talk about it" is not working, because as they happen more and more often, it can never be the time.

I'm for gun ownership rights, but like every other right listed in the BoR, prudent restrictions are handy. And we have some in place already. But for Reasons™, we as a nation seem to have decided that this particular right should remain inviolate.