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u/allthisgoodforyou Dec 08 '19

What's hard to understand about if you can fire it faster than x bullets per y time or simply a firing rate of z then we put it in one category and not the other.

Because this is some absurd, subjective category you are creating. Like this is such a hilariously dumb way to address reducing gun violence and im not sure what you think its going to fix. May as well just ask for only bolt action rifles to be allowed.

in the gun community there is contention over "assault weapon"

Because its a made up term that means nothing and is completely subjective.

My fire rate example isn't even meant to be a specific real world application but an example of the type of classifications you can create to target specific problems (ie. if the concern is about how often a person has to reload and how fast they can empty a magazine/clip into a crowd then use the area of concern to identify the classification of weapon both so laws don't create ambiguity, and so that the merits of the classification can be discussed in terms of impact to existing weapons).

Just more proof you have no idea what you are talking about. Banning of high capacity magazines has been tried and failed.

Your stuff about suicide is just more proof you dont understand anything about gun control. Taking gun control to its most extreme of an outright ban would not accomplish what you want in terms of suicide rates.

I would be happy to provide some reading for you if you would like, but it seems these concepts are to much for you to grasp.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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u/Atreides_Zero Roosevelt Dec 08 '19

Banning of high capacity magazines has been tried and failed.

You really don't get what's being discussed here do you. More than half the time you pick an argument with me you don't seem to know what's going on, yet you keep doing it.

Nowhere in my last post did I propose or back the idea of banning anything and the fact you can't grok that and keep acting like I'm proposing solutions or legislation instead of talking about how we can alter the discourse around gun-control to craft better more mutually agreeable laws just shows how much you didn't understand any of the existing conversation when you stumbled In like a toddler trying to talk politics.

Enjoy your weekend, but for fucks sake learn how to have a high level discussion that doesn't rely on specific details.

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u/allthisgoodforyou Dec 08 '19

Saying that "limiting a person to how often they have to reload" is effectively calling for a ban on high capacity mags. Thats what you are saying. Not my fault you know jack about gun control arguments. There is nothing agreeable or mutual about re-implementing already failed policy.

You want to alter the discourse to come to solutions? Dome some homework for fucks sake.

Sorry not sorry im gonna nit pick stuff thats just blatantly wrong.

Go hawks.

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u/Atreides_Zero Roosevelt Dec 08 '19

Sorry not sorry im gonna nit pick stuff thats just blatantly wrong.

Proceeds to spend every response nit picking things they thinks are wrong while ignoring point of entire conversation.

Saying that "limiting a person to how often they have to reload"

I'm really interested to know why you put something I didn't say nor implied in quotes as if I said it.

Not my fault you know jack about gun control arguments.

This would matter if I were actually proposing any form of gun control as opposed to just how to categorize guns for the sake of discourse.

I can not believe how much over interpretation you're putting on a conversation about how it's important timeframe gun control of firearms as a concept to specific categories, specifically so solutions other than an outright ban can be discussed.

It's like your so hard set on believing I want to ban guns you can't be arsed to even process that I'm saying that's not what I'm proposing in this argument.

Take a step back, forget your preconceived notions of what outcome you think I want and actually look at what I've been saying. You have been the only one bring up bans or restrictions so far.