(March 26, 2018 at 12:29 pm)Khemikal Wrote: @Brian.
I think that easy access to less than lethal rounds would be less of an issue than easy access to ball ammo - on the front of school shootings especially, where there's usually alot of hard and soft cover - and they're more expensive than standard or fmj so that'd please the producers too.
Besides, they're the best type of round for "home defense".....and if that's why people are buying guns nowadays..like they say.....
Not a solution in and of itself, but it could be a step in the right direction that sidesteps alot of nutter and industry objections.
On the bit about limiting stockpiling..well, it absolutely -would- do us good if we could limit stockpiling. Firearms are reduced to clubs when they run out of bullets. Every time some asshole wants to shoot up a school he brings a bando. If he didn't have a bando, his final stats would suck. Combine regulations on the legally purchaseable limit (and storage) of what are. in effect..tiny little explosives....with a funneled preference for rubber rounds in ratio and you're talking about a kid who shows up at a school with an ar-15..very little in the way of ammo (they aren't great shooters) and most of that ammo being unlikely to go through a chair. That, to me, sounds improved.
Less lethal means you don't need big clips or assault riffles. But sure, you don't need hollow points either. Yes the size and shape of the bullet would matter too. But even then it is still an access issue issue to both.
If firearm owners and shop owners would do the right thing and consider where their products end up BEFORE the sale that would go a long way into reducing firearm violence. I would not expect the industry to want that, because just like any CEO of any business, your job is to increase sales and bring in stock holders.
Nobody needs big clips, handgun or riffle, but not only less lethal rounds, also no hording rounds. Just like you don't need to stockpile firearms.
If America's firearm owners would listen to our allies like Australia and Scotland, they would know that firearms are still sold there and not outlawed.
I think before you even get to your idea, you have to force the industry, just like Nader did with the auto industry, to face that a problem exists.
But sure, I agree limiting the amount of rounds you can have and the size would be a help. But still, nobody needs big clips for handguns or long guns.
It still, even after that would be an access issue. Even then, you would not want the mentally ill, domestic abuser, or political/religious nut/violent criminal getting their hands on them.
I get what you are saying, but it is a combo of things, not one thing.
I think the most important thing is to stop the industry from their destructive marketing, just like big Tobacco cant use Cowboys and cartoon Camels to sell their products. I think what you want is a good idea too, but it still has to ultimately be an attitude change on how we view firearms.
