These days, there are AR-15s from everybody, like in the PC clone days. People even build them up from parts. Colt owns the trademark, which is respected as much as IBM’s PC trademark was.
After all, the gun industry invented compatible standards.
There are hundreds AR-15 manufacturers, from giants such as Freedom Group—which owns Remington, Bushmaster and DPMS—to small mom and pop boutique shops that meticulously machine and hand-fit almost every single part. Prices range from $500 to thousands. It is also extremely poplar—and fun, and affordable—to build your own. When you piece-meal your rifle together—you get exactly what you want.
Thanks, I didn’t know that. It’s almost like Americans are being deliberately armed to kill each other.
But my point stands, the NRA is just a front for the gun industry.
Considering the rumors about Russian intelligence interests funding NRA, in the hopes of making the US politics even more dysfunctional, you may be more correct than you’d like.
Yes, but not all. It can be other environmental factors that can’t effectively be controlled for (living in a dense urban environment with heavy industrialization, working in a factory with high levels of particulate) and there are cases where there isn’t a clear environmental cause. Genetics can also play a role, but cancer in general is a complicated matter that we don’t understand all the aspects of.
But if you and others think it’s helpful to blame people for dying of cancer, then I guess that’s fine.
Yes, as others have stated, it’s absolutely certain that if Trump had been there and had a revolver, he would have gone in and confronted the shooter. No one is more courageous than our President.
Sorry, but… what???
Well firstly, I was a smoker for >30 years so yeah, if I got cancer at some point, I’d have blamed myself but how was that the point in any of that discussion and how did you get from a discussion about firearms to accusing me of allegedly blaming cancer patients? That’s crazy!!!
My point was that the singular cause of lung cancer ISN’T just smoking. But my apologies for saying you were victim blaming. My dad died of lung cancer, so perhaps I’m a wee bit sensitive to the issue. I seriously hope you don’t get lung cancer, because seeing the effects first hand, it’s not pretty. No one deserves to die of it and there is some moralizing out there about smokers who get lung cancer. That is indeed victim blaming.
But the fact is that the original poster, @Trogdor clearly indicated that he thought that lung cancer’s cause is only smoking. It’s not like death by guns, because a death by guns is literally ONLY caused by guns. The causes of lung cancer, a nasty disease, isn’t only caused by smoking, but by many different environmental and genetic causes, some of which we don’t fully understand. Plenty of people smoke from a young age and never get it, while some people smoke for only a few years of their lives (or only occassionally) and get lung cancer.
I find it incredibly silly, overall, to compare deaths by gun violence to death by cancer, in part because it implicates those who get cancer in some kind of moral way. It’s almost like how some people in the early days of the AIDS crisis made moral judgements when it was primarily hitting gay men. That’s why we didn’t start out on a strong footing fighting the disease, because some people made moral judgements about those who didn’t. While you may not have been making a moral judgement, it’s pretty clear that the original poster was doing so.
Part of the application process for buying a gun should involve hiding, unarmed, behind a desk for four hours while someone with a gun tries to kill you.
These are sheriff’s deputies, wouldn’t they be wearing bullet proof vests? I don’t think the AR’s range or accuracy would make much difference inside a school building. A gun is only as accurate as the person pulling the trigger, and the pistol is much more versatile/maneuverable in close quarters.
And probably less effective against a rifle round.
And, even then, the AR-15 was incredibly lethal. It shoots a .223 Caliber or 5.56 mm round at roughly 3,300 feet per second, which is about three times the muzzle velocity of a typical Glock pistol.
Chipman, the senior policy analyst at Giffords and former ATF special agent, told Business Insider that the AR-15 is so powerful that they weren’t allowed to carry it during indoor raids because the rounds travel so fast that they could penetrate a victim, then a wall, then a bystander through that room.
Dunno about the other ones. The guy permanently assigned to the school, I seriously doubt it.
I don’t think the AR’s range or accuracy would make much difference inside a school building. A gun is only as accurate as the person pulling the trigger, and the pistol is much more versatile/maneuverable in close quarters.
It wouldn’t make much difference inside your living room, maybe. In a school hallway? If the deputy didn’t somehow make it to “close quarters” without being seen or heard, then yeah, the assault rifle has massive advantages. That’s what they’re for–to kill people from further away than they can kill you.
