thephan wrote:JFLNYC wrote:She did her job well. I blame Jake (or anyone else) for not pointing out that the concepts of keeping crazies away from AR-15’s and making AR-15’s generally less accessible are not mutually exclusive.
Ar15 is getting a bad rap, it has a lot of company, and these all need attention.
True, but any time anyone looking for restrictions on similar weapons tries to classify them, the talking point becomes how you can't classify these as assault/military/automatic/whatever weapons and the conversation quickly deteriorates into technical jargon and the actual issue goes out the window. AR15 is a safe focus as a weapon which is unnecessary except for making lots of holes in things or people in a very short time. Other weaponry with this focus should of course be included in restrictions but I'm fine with the AR15 being the focus of public discussion if it leads to meaningful laws with the necessary level of precision and expertise to restrict the continued profiting over selling this misery (I'm not hopeful, though).