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@lednaBM @bigheadtales Maybe if we criminalized assault weapons and included turning them in, we could get a nice 100,000 or so #MAGA in prison when they refuse.

@Runyan50 @lednaBM @bigheadtales How would you know who had them? That sounds like a recipe for civil war part 2.

@BritishTechGuru @Runyan50 @bigheadtales We had a ban before and things were just fine. As for taking them away, we'll, we all saw how well taking drugs away worked....

@lednaBM @Runyan50 @bigheadtales

From what I saw, things were no different before, during or after.

@bigheadtales @lednaBM @Runyan50

Gun Crime Rate (excl. mass shootings, per 100,000):

1980s: 5.5-7.0
1993: Peak at 7.0
1995-2005: 4.0-5.0
2010: ~3.6
2020: 6.1 (pandemic spike)

General decline since 1990s, with recent increases.

It's not the guns - it's something else driving the spikes.

@lednaBM @BritishTechGuru @Runyan50
Very oddly specific dates and ranges in the statistics, almost like someone was cherrypicking data.

@bigheadtales @BritishTechGuru @Runyan50

Look, guys.... if i was given a choice to live in a community or city where no guns were allowed versus one where guns were allowed, I would take the former. Police, and now drones, can respond quicker than ever to reports of criminal activity. I can dial 911 faster than getting a safely stored weapon ready to fire. Gun ownership is all about ego and feelings of power....

Zephod Beeblebrox

@lednaBM @bigheadtales @Runyan50

I lived in a gun-free country (Britain) and the shooting incidents that occurred were upon later investigations discovered to be down to clear inaction on the part of the police - as though they had been told not to intervene.

Safely stored weapons are useless weapons. They need to be ready to go. No gang of burglars is going to wait while you talk to the 911 operator.

@BritishTechGuru @bigheadtales @Runyan50
That's just a total mischaracterization of how these things occur. Nobody sits on the phone; and in most cases, police are within minutes of showing up where they need to be as long as you just leave the line open. It might be convenient on social media to argue that someone can't chew gum and walk at the same time, but nobody is buying your argument.

@lednaBM @BritishTechGuru @bigheadtales Agree. I don’t keep a gun near my bed. I keep the phone and my ipad to turn my lights on flashing red.

@BritishTechGuru @lednaBM @bigheadtales @Runyan50 I live in a gun infested state. Everybody is probably armed, or has quick access in their cars or bedrooms.

stopping an intruder or violent crime is pure fantasy. The only thing an unprotected gun in a car has ever done is get stolen. Not only will intruders not wait for you to call, if they have bad intent they aren't going to wait for you to dig out your piece.

The movies are movies, and purchasing fancy steel doesn't make a person into rambo

@ATLeagle @lednaBM @bigheadtales @Runyan50 I'm in SC. It's an open carry state I don't actually see many guns in my day to day life. I think I've seen one person open carrying since open carry started for CWP holders couple of years ago. Since the state became open carry for all I've seen none. I've also not heard of any increases in shootings.

@BritishTechGuru @lednaBM @bigheadtales @Runyan50 it's not always open carry here. Beneath half of the car seats, in nearly every fanny pack, many work bags.

These get used very rarely (to the point of not needing them), so shootings will stay similar. Our loosened regulations probably didn't add more guns, because they were already there.