The single most common problem with gun control proposals is that they are concocted by folks who either have no knowledge whatsoever on the subject (guns) but are experts when it comes to control and extremely enthusiastic in that pursuit.
To further compound the problem, they, almost to a person suffer from hoplophobia.
Hoplophobia is a term coined by retired American military officer Jeff Cooper as a pejorative to describe an "irrational aversion to weapons or a fear of armed persons."
Here is a short glossary of terms which seem to give the MSM and political types the most trouble:
a. Assault Weapon: U.S. Army definition, a selective-fire rifle chambered for a cartridge of intermediate power. If applied to any semi-automatic firearm regardless of its cosmetic similarity to a true assault rifle, the term is incorrect. Assault Weapon. Any weapon used in an assault.
b. Automatic or Full Automatic firearm is a weapon which fires multiple rounds with a single pull of the trigger.
c. Semi-Automatic or Self-Loading fires only one shot per each trigger pull but will automatically reload itself from a magazine or clip.
d. An ammunition clip is a device used to store individual rounds of ammunition together as a single unit that is then ready for insertion into the magazine of a gun.
e. Magazine: A magazine is a device which holds and feeds ammunition in a firearm and can be either fixed or detachable.
f. Cartridge or "round" is most commonly used in reference to the complete package of bullet, casing, powder/propellant, rim and primer that makes up the ammunition a firearm shoots.
g. The bullet is the projectile only.
Another issue with such folks is that, in their enthusiasm, they either are unaware of the facts or tend to exaggerate any statistics in order to support their position. Here are just two examples:
a. One gross exaggeration commonly pushed by the antis is the "gun violence" toll which would lead one to believe that the number quoted is only murder or accidental deaths. "Gun violence resulted in 33,172 deaths in 2014."
While the number of firearm related deaths is correct, they have included suicide in the tally. In the interest of honesty, here's the rest of the story:
Quote:These deaths consisted of 11,208 homicides, 21,175 suicides, 505 deaths due to accidental or negligent discharge of a firearm, and 281 deaths due to firearms use with "undetermined intent". Of the 2,596,993 total deaths in the US in 2013, 1.3% were related to firearms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States
And:
Quote:
Margot Sanger-Katz OCT. 8, 2015
When Americans think about deaths from guns, we tend to focus on homicides. But the problem of gun suicide is inescapable: More than 60 percent of people in this country who die from guns die by suicide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mostly-suicides.html
b. Another claim you have heard from the gun grabbers, "The US has the highest firearm related death rate."
In reality, the US ranks #71....right behind the United Kingdom:
Quote: United States:Total 10.54 Method (2014) Homicides 3.60 (2014) Suicide 6.30 (2014) Unintentional 0.18 (2014) Undetermined 0.08 (2014) Guns in United States[*77] Guns per Inhabitant 112.6 Gun Related Death per Gun per Year 0.00009361
*77 "United States - Gun Facts, Figures and the Law". Gunpolicy.org. University of Sydney School of Public Health. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
History has repeatedly proven the futility of attempting to control human behavior by banning inanimate objects during Prohibition and the War on Drugs.
Criminals, by definition, ignore the law and will scoff at any law restricting ability to obtain firearms when bent on committing the more heinous act of murder, a fact also supported by past history.
Regards,
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