At 1/16/21 01:57 PM, SONUCDaFH wrote:
At 1/16/21 12:56 PM, EdyKel wrote:
At 1/16/21 12:42 PM, SONUCDaFH wrote:
At 1/15/21 04:52 PM, Gario wrote:
Sounds like the NRA is in some trouble.
Sorry to hear that for the gun folk on here, but there are alternatives that also would fight for your gun rights, and they don't have the baggage of trying to sell Americans out in the 2016 elections.
How about giving the SRA a shot? All of the fight for your gun rights without the baggage of being full of far right wing crap. Even if not that, I'm sure there are alternatives to the NRA that are far less... well, insane.
why are people wanting to take away guns anyway, most gun-owners are getting guns either to
A) defend themselves, especially in times like these when both parties have domestic terrorists and people who believe in political violence
B) to hunt animals like deer and rabbit
I think people start questioning why some use an overly broad claim over taking away guns to fear monger, while also being concerned over the selling of firearms that start to blur the line between defense and those used in modern wars with their capabilities of fire rate, coupled with high capacity mags, that turn people into a one man army, which has led to a lot of recent mass shootings with the highest body counts in our history.
then how come they can't just make those types of guns/mods illegal unless you have a more specific permit to use them, I can't really think of a comparison but maybe you'll get my idea, and keep normal guns with smaller fire-rates and mags as well with guns with not that much power with a normal permit, yeah that would be breaking the 2nd and 4th amendment kinda but at least it won't cause as bad of an uproar as taking all of the guns away. and also I don't have very many guns in my house so I can't really say anything, not even in the NRA so I guess it's whatever, I probably don't understand because I don't completely understand where people are coming from.
Because those guns, and accessories, sell. For several decades, gun sales were in decline because less and less people were buying them for hunting. The gun industry was hurting. So, they began selling guns that tried to mimic, and blurred the lines between, those of the military, but had little practical use in hunting or self defense - though you will have gun activists who will dispute that. Basically, they were made for collectors, and people who love to shoot guns.
There is a ban on full automatics weapons, which have been around for decades. in the 90's they passed the AWB (Assault Weapon ban) after a mass shooting, but that only had a 10 year shelf life, and it expired which led the gun industry to resume these types of firearms and accessories sells to the public.
At the same time, organizations like the NRA grew in power, and tied guns to American culture, and began a crusade to expand gun rights and accuse anyone who tried to promote or pass any gun regulations as anti-constitution (anti-2nd amendment, according to gun activist's interpretations over it). It also allowed the NRA to become one of the most feared organizations in the country, who could organize millions of their members to support certain politicians over others - even if it was in their own worst interest.
Even though the NRA has been weakened by their own incompetence, very few politicians have an appetite to address the gun problem in this country in fear of reprisal from the strong gun community they created - though, it can very from state to state. And those that do, usually have those regulations revoked by the conservative majority in the Supreme Court, or other conservative activist judges, who favor gun rights over common sense.
