• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    It’s just dumb. The sniper that killed the guy wasn’t using an ar-15. Stopping ar-15’s wouldn’t have done anything to change something like this.

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      4 months ago

      What do you mean, it was an AR-15. I don’t support a ban, just clarifying facts.

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        Sorry if I wasn’t clear in my statement. When I said “the sniper that killed the guy” I was specifying the the secret service sniper that successfully head shotted Crooks. I wasn’t referring to Crooks.

        Pointedly, I was saying that the guy who hit what he was aiming for wasn’t using an AR. Not the guy who failed.

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          Ah ok, I get you, then. I didn’t downvote your comment.

          Guns are tools. And what’s more, “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

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      4 months ago

      You sure about that?

      FBI special agent in charge Kevin Rojek said Crooks used an AR-style rifle chambered in 5.56mm, a common caliber for such weapons. Authorities said the weapon was identified and traced using records from a gun dealership that is no longer operating.

      If that source doesnt work for you, here’s the president of the United states:

      “An AR-15 was used in the shooting of Donald Trump, just as other assault weapons were used to kill so many others, including children."

      That’s from the linked article.

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        Sorry if I wasn’t clear in my statement. When I said “the sniper that killed the guy” I was specifying the the secret service sniper that successfully head shotted Crooks. I wasn’t referring to Crooks.

        Pointedly, I was saying that the guy who hit what he was aiming for wasn’t using an AR. Not the guy who failed.

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          So youre saying that since the wannabe assassin missed, that ARs are not effective weapons?

          Even if you gloss over the all the heavily published mass murder events committed with AR that the president alluded to in the quote above, are you aware that Trump turned his head a split second before the bullet hit his ear? That this likely is the only reason he’s alive?

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            I’m saying that AR’s aren’t a requirement or a need for a shooter and that stopping sales of AR’s just means that something else will be used. You don’t need an AR.