El Paso Shooting (Yes, Again)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't disagree, just making the point that OLB is being unaccountablly dismissive of the seizure of the preferred weapons of mass shooters.

Mass shootings in Ireland and the UK don't constitute a large enough statistical universe to be meaningful.

Boru

Quite the twist there.

Yes - handguns are the " prefered weapon" of mass shooters.

They are also the prefered weapon of civilian self defense, sport shooters and arthritic grandmothers...

But you just concentrate on the smallest percentage.


It's what the left does.

For the teenth time, I don't have an issue with gun ownership.  My post was not about that.

You said that handguns are the most common weapon used in mass shootings.  Ok.  I'm just curious as to why you referred to the Dublin smuggler's cargo as 'just handguns'.  If handguns are the primary weapon used in mass shootings, wouldn't you see curtailing (not banning) their availability as at least one possible way of reducing either the number of mass shootings or the number of victims?

And before you snap off on the wrong tangent, I don't have a problem with you, personally, owning firearms.  Based on your posts here, you seem to know a lot about them (more than I do, anyroad), and you seem well aware of the safety issues involved.  YOU aren't the problem.

Boru