High school shooting in Parkland FL

[Mister Agenda]

You do realize that not everything the NRA does is mandated by the right to bear arms? Buying politicians to the point that the CDC can't even study gun violence, for instance.

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Well, if not everything is dependent on the NRA I guess no one can reasonably object to what it does do, eh?

The NRA has the right to petition the government, both Federal and States, under the Federal and all State Constitutions.  So would anyone want to deprive that organization of its constitutional rights?  People who disagree with the NRA can also petition the government for what they want.  That's democracy in action in our country.  

Do you want to limit guns?  There is already all kinds of laws on the books that do that.

Do you want to eliminate guns?  You will have to change the Federal Constitution as well as most of the State Constitutions.   While it's possible to do that it's highly unlikely to happen because even people who aren't one of the 5 million or so NRA members aren't inclined to give up their guns.

And we have an equal constitutional right to join an organization that allows anyone who pays the dues to join, operates democratically, and change its direction if enough of us don't like it. The NRA wasn't founded as a 'guns at any cost' organization and does not have to remain one.

You seem to have pulled the notion that I want to eliminate guns completely out of your ass.

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Except for conducting mass murder of what use is a rapid fire rifle with high capacity magazines? Has anyone ever had to fight of a rampaging horde of snowshoe rabbits?

The AR-15 is a good model for pig hunting. We have way too many feral hogs here in the South. It's kind of counter-intuitive since most AR-15s are low-caliber, but apparently the .223 is better at penetrating the hide before expanding. If a large feral hog is charging you, you might want the capability to get off a couple more shots quickly. But no need for a 15-round magazine, restricting magazine capacity to five would be reasonable.