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Weapons like the AR-15 and those similar have been used in many mass shootings in the US. Should all of these weapons like the above be confiscated by the US government?
Yes, and my reasoning, though not sound, probably emotional, probably nutty, goes like this:
I see more and more people, including children, posting pictures of themselves, or family, even children, posing with these military weapons.
In my view, it looks to me a lot like there is a gun fetish growing in this country. Badass looking weapons, like they see in movies a lot, and on TV, they are everywhere, it glorifies them, and when the are glorified, a lot of people want to participate, they want them, they see celebrities in movies with them and they want to be like them,
it's just like people smoking in movies.
People see movie stars smoking, and they want to smoke. When I was a kid in the 60s, most people smoked, and the consensus was that it was movies promoting cigarettes ( not directly, just by their being in movies) was causing people to want to smoke. Smoking culture has been so demonized in America now, parents getting wiser, people becoming more concerned about their health, that this is countering the fact that
smoking is still seen in films, so that ad effect is having less effect, these days, given growing public awareness of the dangers of nicotine.
The point is, Advertising works, put something ion a film, even though it's not a full on commercial, just the fact that it's placed, it's a celebrity quasi-subliminal ad. So, With guns, it also works. Now, I don't think we can force filmmakers to not use these guns in movies, but to help cure this fetish, or diminish it, I propose the following ( noting that it may or may not reduce crime, I just don't know ) :
Ban all of them, take them out of circulation. It will take time, but in time, it's doable.
Grant citizens the right to own single shot long guns, rifles and shot guns, no semi or fully automatic weapons or hand guns ( maybe not, not sure about hand guns, for now ).
You have the right to own a gun to kill game for food, and to defend yourself. That's SCOTUS on 2a, so either repeal it revise it, but until then, this is my idea.
Now, you're going to laugh at the next proposal, but I'll give my reasoning for it, as silly as it sounds:
Mandate that all guns in citizens hands ( not military or police ) to be pink in color.
Okay, before you start laughing your arse off, hear me out.
A few years ago, I witnessed an interesting experiment, it was on TV, as I recall.
Two very muscular guys were arm wrestling, they had big strong arms, and were about the same strength each.
They arm wrestled and they tied, not one could put the other down. So, they were told to go home and rest, and come back tomorrow.
Tomorrow they came back, and arm wrestled again, but this one, the guy the right had someone hold a pink card in front of his eyes. It wasn't so big he couldn't see well enough to arm wrestle his opponent.
The guy on the left beat him, easily. There was no question about it, they held for a second or two, and the guy on the left slammed him down.
So they were asked to go home, and come back again the next day.
Same guys on left and right to the camera. This time, they had the guy on the left look at a pink card while arm wrestling.
This time, the guy on the right easily beat him.
Just in case this test was an anomaly, they searched, and found, two different but similar guys, equal in strength, and guess what?
The same thing happened. There is something about pink that soothes the savage beast.
Anyway, you see where I'm going with this? Mandate boring looking guns only, single shot, and PINK.
Who knows, it might work insofar as reducing crimes.
Hell, I don't know, but I'm getting tired of boring solutions and people fetishizing guns.
It's time to do something.
yeah, I know, someone's going to kill someone with a pink gun, someone's going to rob a bank with a pink gun, I'm just sayin', maybe it will get the stats to go down overall.
It has to be a federal law, because with state laws, anyone can go to a neighboring state, and get around the law.
I noticed that there are few crimes committed with fully automatic machine guns, and the fact that they are much more regulated than other guns, no? That seems like a strong correlation between a federal law and the lower incidence of crimes.
Okay, I'm no expert ( is it that obvious? ) so, experts, enlighten me.
Thank you. (don't shoot, just a trial balloon here).
Tiger and ArJay, both of you need to knock this feud off. If you can't debate the issue without trolling each other then I'd suggest you stop responding
