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More information on “businesses leading the reform of guns sales” – https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/podcasts/the-daily/walmart-guns.html
I, for one, now consciously go out of my way to shop at Dick’s because of their assault rifle and magazine stance.
What’s an “assault rifle”?
Most people do not (obviously) know what an “assault rifle” is. An assault rifle is a military rifle. That means it is fully automatic. It doesn’t just look like a military rifle, it is one. The AR15 and non-automatic AK47 look alikes are NOT assault rifles. These are SEMI-AUTOMATIC rifles meaning you have to pull the trigger one time to make the gun shoot one time. This type of rifle has been around on the civilian market for at least 60 or 70 years. If you get rid of the AR15 and AK47 look alike type rifles there will still be hundreds of rifles that are for hunting that do the same thing but look like the sporting rifles they are. Making these guns look like military rifles was a marketing ploy.
Now if you mean get rid of all semi-automatic guns, that would be millions upon millions of guns and many millions of law abiding gun owners giving up their 2nd amendment protected rights. Now that may be what the people, that want to get rid of what they term “assault rifles”, actually want, but that would betray their true intention which is to disarm the American public. When that happens, we will have done just what a country like China wants. There is no doubt the government of China would be even more worried if the people of Hong Kong were armed, but they are not. The Chinese government has move over 150,000 soldiers across the recently completed bridge between the mainland and the Island and city of Hong Kong. So far they have down nothing. But when and if they do it will not go well with the unarmed people of Hong Kong.
After World War 2, the Japanese specifically listed as one of their worries, had they tried to attack the mainland of the United States, the number of armed citizens here. The 2nd amendment is not there to insure people can go hunting. It is meant as a somewhat not so veiled threat against the central government trying to move against its own citizens when they disagree in large numbers.
While I applaud Dicks for getting rid of some of the guns at a substantial loss. …
People are still missing the real issue!
What is going on inside them?
It’s just like weeds in a garden….
If you DONT DEAL WITH THE ROOT CAUSE….
THE PROBLEM, ADDICTION, SHOOTINGS, STEALING, ABUSE, ETC
WILL NEVER GO AWAY!
I don’t think addictions and stealing are the issues when it comes to assault rifle attacks. Otherwise, we’d see those types of attacks all over the news every night in inner cities.
Abuse? Perhaps, whether familial or societal (e.g. schools or that of the actions of classmates) are more like it.
Seeking help is still a societal stigma. Even if you eliminated every assault, automatic, and semi-automatic gun (as if that’s possible – what would you do for guns which are [now] illegally owned by someone other than the legal/purchasing owner? And those who are currently mass shooters would find other means for attempting to exorcise their demons by attacking others.
And forced buybacks are a fantasy electoral panacea. The social stigma for obtaining assistance prevents a lot of people from seeking help for what ails them. You know all of those kids you (or your offspring) “kidded” (abused) by belittling them routinely, persistently, when it’s rationalized by saying they were just teasing?
Those who did so probably contributed to the next mass shooting. They just won’t be sought out.
Guns aren’t the problem, people are. (And I don’t mean “guns can’t pull their own triggers”).
As far as the 2nd Amendment goes, I know a lot of people who wish the country would rewrite the Constitution and reboot American society. Unfortunately, things such as Free Speech would likely be abolished as well should many, if not most people, have their way. Think of how many people (IBJ included) in newspaper, magazine, and TV would lose their jobs!