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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 01:25 PM Feb 2018

America's bump stock capital: can this tiny Texas town survive Trump's ban?

When Don Boyett was asked if he believes that bump stocks should be banned, he gestured to the moss green SUV in his driveway.

“Let’s take my Ford Expedition here. Let’s say I get drunk and I run over 30 people out in the middle of the road. Are we going to sue Ford and get rid of Ford Expeditions? It’s the person behind the wheel. The same thing with a gun. To me, it’s the person behind that gun that’s at fault. It’s not the gun’s fault,” he said.

Amid the renewed push for gun control after the deaths of 17 students and teachers in a Florida school shooting 11 days ago, Donald Trump last Tuesday told the justice department to issue a ban on bump stocks – attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at greatly increased rates akin to fully automatic firearms.

The obscure accessory was not a feature of the Florida shooting, but its profile was raised after it was used in the Las Vegas mass shooting last October, which killed 58. Even the National Rifle Association contemplated supporting some restrictions on their use after that, although it opposes an outright ban.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/25/americas-bump-stock-capital-can-this-tiny-texas-town-survive-trumps-ban


Blood money and the supporters of Blood money are losing, we will not stand by anymore, and let greed and a minority, 3 million run around with this tired old blood money bullshit basically attacking 240 million that want:..........................

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.


It does not say anything about a fucking gun


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