Cripes, half a million? The hashtag had about that many tweets when I looked this morning, but I didn't expect anywhere near that number to actually show up.
Sources are a bit fuzzy on the exact estimate. I'm unclear whether the number given is the estimate for those in DC, or nationwide? Prolly know more soon. Either way, that's a heck of a lot of people.
Half a million in DC. I’m protesting in Seattle right now and there’s estimated 10 thousand people here.
And I already saw one of the speakers say word for word "give us an inch and we'll take a mile" to thunderous applause after talking about an assault weapons ban. Wow.
They can fuck off if they think their getting an AWB.
https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/977598947412926465
Another 150,000 in New York City.
Grr if wanna dump my mag into something dangummit it's my right to do so. Who gives a shit if kids are pissed and scared of they have to go to school to the threat of a shooting every day. I'm gonna go tell my militia buddies to stand our ground by taking over the local courthouses.
It'll happen eventually; it's only a matter of when.
Grow up.
No AWB. Please for the love of god. I'm OK with opening up NICS, fixing up background checks, things like that.
But for the love of god, no more banning of scary looking guns.
And when that day comes, hopefully I'll be long gone.
I agree, I think people who are crying about awb being expanded upon over lives of kids who are scared to go to school and are being ignored with thoughts and prayers, should grow up.
I'm sorry, I don't like security theater like the PATRIOT Act. It does effectively nothing, and only acts to erode the nessecary freedoms that our country holds dear.
The AWB we had in the 90s was shown to have done absolutely nothing. So why should we try it again, when it's not going to actually do anything? I'd love to find some solutions that actually tackle the problem and respect the rights of gun-owners, but an AWB is not that.
AWB will do nothing.
And if one is ever passed, good luck getting owners to give them up.
Cause banning SCARY ASSAULT WEAPONS has worked for france right?
Eexpand upon it with more logical rules and regulations like a sane person. Blows my mind that every country gets by with stricter gun laws, but America can't do the same. And before you jump down and scream about how American culture is different, try thinking inaction means no action at all. If you never change you'll never be changed.
This tide is turning. These are energized, new, voters who're liable to show up at the polls. We've had since Sandy Hook to solve this problem and we still haven't solved it. Their frustration is more than warranted; their fear more than justified.
If you want them to change their opinions, now is the time to get onboard with them and shape what they're going to vote for -- because they are going to vote.
No AWB. It won't work. It's not going to reduce mass shootings. It's not going to reduce homicides. It's not going to reduce suicides. All you're going to do is turn a bunch of law-abiding citizens into criminals. The vast majority of gun homicides in this country are comitted with handguns, same with suicides. An AWB will not tackle the causes of those murders and suicides. It will do nothing to reform our prison system which just encourages recidivism. It will do nothing to stop the war on drugs, which has only exasubrated drug problems that already exist. It sure as shit isn't going to do anything to curb poverty - which is one of the biggest drivers of crime in this U.S., and which feeds into things like prisons, the war on drugs, etc...
So no AWB.
The people who need to grow up are the ones prioritizing a hobby over human life.
I dont know what country you are looking at but i dont see school shootings happening daily here, and no its not dumb my point is that an AWB will do nothing but punish law abiding citizens and do nothing to stop shootings as we've seen with past AWB
>An AWB will be a pointless piece of feel good legislation so everyone can go "We did it!" but nothing actually has been done.
It'd have some impact. Whether or not it'd be good or bad is up to debate, but it would have one. What they're demonstrating for is, in fact, that 'nothing has actually been done' and they're tired of people running excuses for it -- that it's a 'complex issue', that 'we can't rewrite the constitution', that 'we need those guns'. Et cetera.
thank you for reminding us that your personality is four letters long
One would hope...your weird obsession with militias is genuinely concerning.
Kids and teens are getting rightfully pissed now, the history of the US and school shootings is pretty fucking abhorrent, and not a single damn thing is being done about it because it's not really in the politicians interest to actually protect their citizens apparently. You're either fighting the Republicans with their stupid NRA money (or worse, actual die-hard Libertarians), or the Democrats who are mostly putting on a show of trying to do shit half the time because effective legislation would take a lot of time to actually implement and roll out. "feel good" shit like the AWB only exists because attempting to actually do anything of meaning riles up fucking lunatic militia losers and gets politicians death threats or worse for daring to have their position.
The fact that the first thing you post is "grrr they going to try to take my GUNS" is weird dude. As Americans keep insisting to me, actually taking your guns is impossible (I mean, it isn't but lets just roll with this). So make your minds up, are your government a focused enough, organised group that they could realistically enact a change that lets them come and take your firearms, or are they a collection of fucking idiots who barely know what guns are? They can't be both, but that's the impression a lot of hardline 2A supporters on here seem to project.
This is such a ridiculous line of argumentation. On both sides I might add. It's more than a hobby in the U.S. - The right for the people to arm and defend themselves is a part of the document that governs how our government, well, governs. It's an actual right that the people have, and were granted by "their creator", meaning that the government can't just come and take it away. While there are some who use guns for hobby purposes (which is a perfectly legitimate reason I might add, no need to ridicule people for it), there are those who rely on guns for their livelihood - or to help protect said livelihood. The AR-15 is extremely popular with boar hunters in the south - Boar are damaging to crops and livestock. They can be deadly - and their population is kept in check by hunters and farmers who need a solid rifle which can put a number of rounds into a boar if it starts charging.
There are others who rely on firearms just in case something bad were to happen, if they were being attacked for example. I recently went to the Connecticut Pistol Safety course and out of the ~15 or so people there, the majority were minority women. If they were to get attacked, they would be otherwise defenseless.
To ridicule that as "prioritizing a hobby" is not seeing beyond your own argument. I totally sympathize with the kids who have been effected by these shootings, and I certainly agree there are steps we can take to help mitigate and eventually elimate the issue. But that answer is not "ban guns".
The proliferation of guns is certainly an issue, but should effective legislation be put in place over feel good crap from the 90's that didn't work?
I'm all for making some effective changes, but AWB didn't actually help, or change anything. Gun registries don't really do anything. Canada did it, wasted billions, and one crime was solved due to it IIRC?
Not quite sure what you mean with those numbers.. as those arent SCHOOL shootings
> I totally sympathize with the kids who have been effected by these shootings, and I certainly agree there are steps we can take to help mitigate and eventually elimate the issue. But that answer is not "ban guns".
Good luck convincing them of that when they're the ones being shot by them.
Not really since the one we had in the 90s was shown to have had NO EFFECT.
Where exactly did you get these numbers from?
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