Originally Posted by Taichiliberal View Post
I'm saying that this was BEFORE various state gun laws. I agree that the "law" were a gun has to be unloaded and locked away is unnecessary in a household with sane, responsible parents. Bottom line: the "locked box" scenario really pertains to teenagers and potential theft, NOT little kids.
The rest of your screed is misleading, as the mass shootings were committed by teens on up, who either legally purchased their weapons of choice or obtained them through illegal means. BIG FREAKING DIFFERENCE from some little kid grabbing Dad's loaded gun and accidentally shooting someone (which still happens occasionally in this country).
It's about time YOU acknowledge the FACTS that the weapons of choice for the majority of mass shootings in the last 25 years were those that were formally banned. Register guns like cars, and you lower criminal purchase...couple this with renewing the 1994 AWB, and you change the dynamic regarding mass shootings.
Again and again, I point
Read the "assault weapon ban," then come back and tell me what was "banned."
"The biggest of the various loopholes in the bill was that it only applied to the specified types of weapons and large-capacity magazines that were created
after the bill became law, meaning that there was nothing illegal about owning or selling such a weapon or magazine that had been created before the law was signed."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/understanding-1994-assault-weapons-ban-ended/story?id=65546858
So, every one of my "assault weapons" that I already owned was legal and were NOT BANNED!
In fact, I purchased 2 of them from the Army during Clinton's "Assault weapons Ban." Whaaa...
Your quote essentially reiterates the FACT that within the law any weapon that was purchased or sold before the bill was made law was legal...anything like this afterward was illegal.
