Imagine If You Will

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Just for a moment - I'd like everyone to imagine what would have happened at the Route 91 Festival in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, had 4 or 5 THOUSAND of those 20,000 concert attendees pulled out their handguns and began firing.

(Towards the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Towards the Luxor. Towards helicopters... towards each other...)

To The American Public

In response to all the recent crap I've seen on the news regarding citizens, who are worried that their guns will be taken away... And also to all you non-gun-owners in a position of power, please take a moment to read this. You'll be educated for the better.

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The term "assault weapons" has misled you.

When people see weapons like the AR-15, or the .223 Bushmaster, they call these assault weapons. Way, way too many of you don't know what the hell an assault weapon is. There is actually no definition of an assault weapon!

But OK, there are also assault rifles in existence. If you read that, you'll see that most "assault rifles" are fully automatic. They also cost many thousands of dollars.. Usually upwards of $10,000. These are the weapons you see during war, where there is a "rope" of rounds being fed in by another soldier.

Wait a minute. What's the difference between semi-automatic, and fully-automatic? Read that. Please.

ANY semi-automatic weapon will fire one (and only one) round with each squeeze of the trigger. However, most fully-automatic weapons will fire multiple rounds with one squeeze of the trigger. They will continue to fire until the trigger is released. These are machine guns, as most people think of what it means to be a "machine gun". Many people think the term "assault weapon" MEANS "machine gun". That couldn't be further from the truth.

Here is a very well-done slideshow for you to check out from assaultweapon.info. ~ Read that too!

Semi-automatic technology has been around for over a hundred years. This includes semi-automatic handguns. Any gun that can be fired repeatedly as fast as the shooter can squeeze the trigger is a semi-automatic. This includes revolvers! It also includes most shotguns. Most shotguns are either semi-automatic or pumps. The pump shotguns require the shooter to pump the prior shell out, the action also loads another shell, and it's very quick. It's not semi-automatic, but most pump shotguns can hold 7 shells, or at least 3-5. Semi-automatic shotguns can shoot 7 rounds as quickly as the trigger is pulled.

Anyone can take any semi-automatic rifle - or a hunting rifle - and change many various parts of the rifle, and make it look just like an AR-15, or.. what people think is an assault weapon:

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The AR-15, the .223 Bushmaster, are exactly the same as all semi-automatic hunting "long guns".

Period.

By the way, most of these lunatics who go murder people with guns got their guns legally. This is an important fact.

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I've already mentioned that semi-automatic technology has been around for over a hundred years. If all semi-automatic guns were banned in this country, all criminals would have an absolute advantage.

The point is this: If there were a semi-automatic weapons ban, we would be suddenly thwarted back to the late 1800s. In those times the only guns in existence were single-load weapons. So the answer to the gun violence of 2012 is to make only single-load guns available? Right. It will never happen. But if it did, all criminals would have a serious advantage.

The more important message is that everyone needs to understand the difference between a rapid-fire machine gun, and a semi-automatic weapon.

Remembering the Victims

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Those families are all in my thoughts. Stay strong!

12 Facts About Guns & Mass Shootings in the United States

~ a super Washington Post/Wonkblog article by Ezra Klein

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When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”

Let’s be clear: That is a form of politicization. When political actors construct a political argument that threatens political consequences if other political actors pursue a certain political outcome, that is, almost by definition, a politicization of the issue. It’s just a form of politicization favoring those who prefer the status quo to stricter gun control laws.

Since then, there have been more horrible, high-profile shootings. Jovan Belcher, a linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, took his girlfriend’s life and then his own. In Oregon, Jacob Tyler Roberts entered a mall holding a semi-automatic rifle and yelling “I am the shooter.” And, in Connecticut, at least 27 are dead — including 18 children — after a man opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

If roads were collapsing all across the United States, killing dozens of drivers, we would surely see that as a moment to talk about what we could do to keep roads from collapsing. If terrorists were detonating bombs in port after port, you can be sure Congress would be working to upgrade the nation’s security measures. If a plague was ripping through communities, public-health officials would be working feverishly to contain it.

Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. “Too soon,” howl supporters of loose gun laws. But as others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn’t “too soon.” It’s much too late.

What follows here isn’t a policy agenda. It’s simply a set of facts — many of which complicate a search for easy answers — that should inform the discussion that we desperately need to have.

1. Shooting sprees are not rare in the United States.

Mother Jones has tracked and mapped every shooting spree in the last three decades. “Since 1982, there have been at least 61 mass murders carried out with firearms across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii,” they found. ...Cont'd...

Click here to continue to the rest of the article..

The article linked above ("tracked and mapped") is also very, very good!

The Men Who Killed Kennedy - Pt. 9 (The Guilty Men)

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Probably the Image that will Stick With Me

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This is the picture from the Aurora, CO movie theater massacre that is SO incredible to me. The similarity of blood spatter in NINE separate, but consecutive, footprints. Twenty-two separate pieces of evidence. The glock on the car roof. The imagery/symbolism of the reddish stuff exiting through the A/C run-off drain. And of course the AR15 pointed directly into the site.

If anyone finds an image that includes what is RIGHT of this image, please send it to me!

We Have a Lot of Guns!

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Americans have a lot of guns. There are a lot of data showing that Americans have a lot of guns. The Guardian put together some such data – on world firearms murders and ownership. USA is #1 when it comes to gun ownership. America is also near the top when it comes to percentage of homicides by firearm, though not so far out in the lead as with average ownership. (Source)

Clicking on the image above takes you to the interactive map reported by the above article from Forbes. Here is the original Guardian post of the interactive map, and here is the article from Forbes, which also contains a link to go directly to the data.

Such a Perfect Basketball Name

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Ever Seen a Shotgun Rainbow?

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Lots more cool shooting videos at the source page listed under the video!

Pool

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Gangster Dog

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Shootin' and Rollin' and Shooting' and Rollin'

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The Minigun

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But can it blow up a helicopter in 3 seconds? OK, ok.. I play too much Grand Theft Auto.

Yeah, That's About Right

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Could JFK's Assassination Have Been An "Accident"?

Brendan Kiley, a writer for The Stranger Dot Com, poses the question after reading Andy Kerr's "A Journey Amongst The Good And The Great". Its prologue begins like this:

One day we got a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald. The name meant nothing to us then. The letter was long and handwritten and was mailed from Russia where Oswald was living with his wife, Marina. It was addressed to "The Honorable John Connally," who was then the secretary of the navy in the Kennedy administration.

Read the whole (short) article..

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The 40mm Machine Gun

Another one from this guy, the one who I posted shooting the AA-12 Auto Shotgun.



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Did you see the size of that missle round? OMG! You know, actually, that's no "machine gun", it's a mini immobile TANK!

The AA-12 Fully Automatic Shotgun

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More info here..

More AA-12 videos: 01, 02

Aim

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I guess it depends on whether or not he closes the correct eye. Then again maybe he sees double, so it won't matter. Then again, I guess that's the point, huh..

Two-handed Rapid Fire Glock

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They're Not Listening

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