Gun Confiscation Reference June 2019

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Jun 25, 2019
Banning semiautomatic weapons won’t solve America’s gun problem
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gibson-guns-legislation-weaponizing-20190625-story.html


June 9, 2019
‘Help Us!’ The Panic at D.C. Pride
We live in a country where revelers cannot even celebrate a group, cause or artist without the fear of a mass shooting.
By Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist June 9, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/opinion/dc-pride-2019.html? 



Banning semiautomatic weapons won’t solve America’s gun problem
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gibson-guns-legislation-weaponizing-20190625-story.html

Jun 25, 2019 | 3:05 AM
Banning semiautomatic weapons won’t solve America’s gun problem
By J. William Gibson
Jun 25, 2019 | 3:05 AM
Banning semiautomatic weapons won’t solve America’s gun problem
A bump stock is installed on an AK-47 at Good Guys Gun and Range on February 21, 2018 in Orem, Utah. (George Frey / Getty Images)

Every time there is another mass shooting, calls begin anew for a ban on private ownership of semiautomatic rifles. But, sadly, the time has passed when such an approach would make a decisive difference in the United States.

In an era of declining hunting, firearms manufacturers have increasingly transformed their product lines to feed gun buyers’ desires for military-style weaponry. Even if Congress could agree to pass a new law banning semiautomatic rifles – a big if in today’s polarized climate – a wide range of combat weapons would still be legally available, along with accessories to make them deadlier.

Shotguns, for example, may not have the 300-yard range of semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15, but many are lethal at 30 yards, and over the last 20 years, have steadily become more so. It used to be that shotguns held only five shells at most, carried in a tubular magazine under the barrel, but manufacturers have slowly increased shell capacity up to nine in some models.

After all its shells have been fired, by either a pump or semiautomatic action, a tube-fed shotgun must be reloaded one shell at a time, a slow process. In 2017, combat shotgun firepower jumped when firearms manufacturers Remington and Mossberg began offering shotguns with detachable magazines that hold six to 20 shells. An empty magazine can be removed and a new one inserted in just two seconds. For hunting, many states restrict shotgun capacity to three shells.
















‘Help Us!’ The Panic at D.C. Pride
By Charles M. Blow  Opinion Columnist
    June 9, 2019


I didn’t realize that the weekend was also D.C.’s gay pride weekend celebration until my cab from the airport began to move though an ever-thickening swarm of rainbow-clad revelers and final came to a stop four blocks from my hotel, because that was as close as the driver could get me. I had to drag my luggage through the crowd and across a parade route.
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It is us who have watched mass shooting after mass shooting and done almost nothing about it, other than to breed and train into our young people a reflexive run-for-your-life or shelter-in-place sensibility.

Mass shooters have become our domestic terrorists, and the possibility of their presence and threat of their carnage is now an ambient dread in the American psyche.

There are not many countries in the world where a fun parade could so quickly dissolve into hysteria because it is absolutely plausible that there could be yet another man with a weapon hellbent on watching bullets rip through flesh.

The National Rifle Association and their conservative handmaidens in Washington have hampered any real movement on the issue of gun control. And so, our country has become conditioned to unending carnage. It is the tableau against which the American story unfolds.

Those women in my room had every right to fear for their lives. It was perfectly understandable that they could believe that a mass shooter could be anywhere, even at a parade bursting with rainbows.

That is the ghastly legacy that my generation has bequeathed to theirs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/opinion/dc-pride-2019.html? 

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