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Stop the Slaughter of Our Children With These Weapons of War

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Stop the Slaughter of Our Children With These Weapons of War

Assault weapons are designed to kill as many people as possible in the shortest time possible. They are for war; they are not for sport.

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By Mike Mullen
8/9/19

I spent my entire professional life taking up arms in defense of our country, serving in wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan, and ending my service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan I saw how our ground forces and special forces sought to improve the precision and lethality of their weapons, which took enemy lives and saved their own. Such is the nature of war. But these weapons are for war; they are not for sport. Assault weapons are designed to kill as many people as possible in the shortest time possible. As the tragic events last week in El Paso and Dayton attest, these weapons make it virtually impossible for law-enforcement agencies to stop those bent on taking lives. In Dayton, heroic officers responded within 30 seconds, and yet the shooter still killed nine people. I had hoped that our political leaders would put saving innocent lives ahead of their careers, if necessary sacrificing their own political ambitions to get this done. But our politicians have proved unwilling to take up the cause or to take risks for the sake of the many citizens, young and old, murdered both before and after Sandy Hook. Would you gather the courage if it were your son or daughter whose life had been taken?

In the years I served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I sat with far too many mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of loved ones killed in combat, the best of us, who had made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country. After Sandy Hook, I watched in abject disgust while our Congress did nothing, despite the fact that some 90 percent of Americans supported universal background checks. Since Sandy Hook, the politics have gotten worse and the weapons have become more deadly. And we are led by an administration without a moral compass, which seeks to divide us and destroy our values: equality, freedom, democracy, human rights, integrity, responsibility, accountability. These attacks threaten the very underpinnings of our civilization. Now is the time for courage. We must take steps to make our country and its citizens safe from this growing national-security threat by banning these assault weapons with their large magazines, and by putting in place comprehensive and universal background checks without loopholes. The United States accounts for some 4 percent of the global population but holds about 45 percent of the civilian firearms in the world. We are way out of balance. I have been involved in the use of arms for my entire adult life. I understand what they can do. It is time to act. If we do nothing, many more innocent lives will be needlessly sacrificed—and the blood of those innocents will continue to flow upon our hands.

Mike Mullen, is a retired U.S. Navy admiral, served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

You've got it right Sir. This is absolute madness.
 
End abortion now! Oh wait were we talking about slaughtering children?
 
He got it wrong and is fully aware that an AR-15 is not "just like" an M-4 or M-16 (which are assault rifles).



He's been to war. I think I'll go with his logic and experience over yours.

There is no reason to have weapons of war easily available on the civilian market.
 
Stop the Slaughter of Our Children With These Weapons of War

Assault weapons are designed to kill as many people as possible in the shortest time possible. They are for war; they are not for sport.

The Second Amendment was made to safeguard citizen's right to keep and bear arms meant for war. Not for sport.

If our founding fathers meant it otherwise, they could have made the preamble:

"A well-fed population able to hunt game for food and sport, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
 
He's been to war. I think I'll go with his logic and experience over yours.

There is no reason to have weapons of war easily available on the civilian market.

What, exactly, transforms a semi-auto rifle into a "weapon of war" other than how it is used? As a follow-up question, why should LEOs be permitted to have a "weapon of war"?
 
The Second Amendment was made to safeguard citizen's right to keep and bear arms meant for war. Not for sport.

If our founding fathers meant it otherwise, they could have made the preamble:

"A well-fed population able to hunt game for food and sport, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Prepare yourself for "the militia clause was intended to define the type of people, not the type of arms, that the (federal?) government could not infringe upon".
 
He's been to war. I think I'll go with his logic and experience over yours.

There is no reason to have weapons of war easily available on the civilian market.
Which of these is the "assault rifle"...the "weapon of war"...and why?

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End abortion now! Oh wait were we talking about slaughtering children?

A fetus is not a living breathing person. And why is the right so fascinated with a fetus but couldn't care less about innocent living breathing people slaughtered time after time? When our america did nothing after sandy hook, we reached a new low for money and politics.

Grow some balls or a vagina and put your careers on the line and 'do something'. How can these folks in congress who refuse to do anything live with themselves?
 
Its funny...but its almost like people that advocate for disarming Americans either dont understand the Constitution, or dont care about the Constitution.
 
A fetus is not a living breathing person. And why is the right so fascinated with a fetus but couldn't care less about innocent living breathing people slaughtered time after time? When our america did nothing after sandy hook, we reached a new low for money and politics.

Grow some balls or a vagina and put your careers on the line and 'do something'. How can these folks in congress who refuse to do anything live with themselves?
132,000 rapes occur every year. Assuming you still have a dick, wont you chop off YOUR dick to make sure no one else gets raped? Dont you CARE about women?
 
He got it correct. Look up the definition of assault weapon.

Who's definition of "assault weapon" do you consider to be 'official' and why did you not post it for discussion?
 
Stop the Slaughter of Our Children With These Weapons of War

Assault weapons are designed to kill as many people as possible in the shortest time possible. They are for war; they are not for sport.





You've got it right Sir. This is absolute madness.

There is a reason we've been seeing more AR and AK style weapons in civilian hands and it goes back to the Hollywood bank robbery in 1997. In that incident a couple of guys dressed in body armor, armed themselves with AKs, robbed a bank and shot it out with police. The police were severely outgunned and ended up commandeering arms from a local gun shop to better address the threat. People watching this all go down immediately thought (like the cops did) that if criminals had these weapons then it would be a good idea to have them as well for personal defense.

The bottom line in self defense is to be prepared to meet any threat you're likely to encounter with at least comparable and preferably superior force. For most of us that means carrying a sidearm. In years past we would carry .38s and .357s. They provided the ability to meet most of what one was likely to run across. Today we generally carry 9mm, .40 and .45 because those rounds pack a little more punch and we're also looking for more ammo capacity. We ARE NOT carrying ARs because they are a common threat but we do like to have them available for when we encounter an uncommon threat.

The biggest mistake that the "gun control" crowd makes is that they absolutely refuse to think of civilians considering defensive use of weapons. For the gun control crowd the only conceivable use of a weapon by a civilian is hunting or homicide. That just isn't the case. The VAST majority of gun owners choose to own firearms for defensive purposes. They see these incidents happening and think to themselves "waiting around 5 minutes, or even ONE minute, for the cops to show up when someone is shooting at me will totally suck. Maybe if I could shoot back I can protect myself for that short period of time".
 
132,000 rapes occur every year. Assuming you still have a dick, wont you chop off YOUR dick to make sure no one else gets raped? Dont you CARE about women?

The arguments from you folks get crazier and crazier. With your thinking we should ban motor vehicles too and matches.
 
The arguments from you folks get crazier and crazier. With your thinking we should ban motor vehicles too and matches.

Either that or the whole point is that we SHOULDN'T ban stuff that the vast majority of people use lawfully and regularly every day.
 
The sentence "Stop the Slaughter of Our Children With These Weapons of War" is a poorly written and confusing sentence.

It could either mean "stop these weapons of war which are slaughtering our children", or "use these weapons of war to stop the slaughter of our children."
 
Either that or the whole point is that we SHOULDN'T ban stuff that the vast majority of people use lawfully and regularly every day.

It's the right who keeps using words like ban or take your guns, never miss an opportunity to play the fear card. We are speaking about ideas to help cut down on these massacres and all I basically hear from the right is words like ban. Keep your guns, limit the amount of rounds it can carry. Do you really need thirty rounds for deer hunting?
 

Thank you. That (bolded above) is the truth - the terms 'assault rifle', 'assault weapon' and 'weapon of war' are purely political in nature and are designed to equate (to machine guns) functionally dissimilar guns based on their physical appearance and features that have no ballistic effect whatsoever. Magazine capacity is usually tossed in based on the theory (assumption?) that a shooter requiring a few more seconds to fire multiple rounds would be "less deadly" rendering his/her selected human targets "more safe" (at less risk of injury or death?).

The Truth About Assault Weapons
 
The arguments from you folks get crazier and crazier. With your thinking we should ban motor vehicles too and matches.
Its rather ironic, don't you think? You advocate for targeting the rights of 120 million law abiding citizens because of the actions of a handful of people a year...yet when it comes to YOU sacrificing your dick to prevent 132000 rapes, you find that crazy. THEN you offer the ludicrous concept of banning motor vehicles and matches while ignoring the fact that THAT stupid notion is PRECISELY what you are doing with firearm ownership.

There is a lesson in there for you.
 
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