on national network and cable news

"MAN, GIRLFRIEND CHARGED IN BRUTAL MURDERS OF 6 FAMILY MEMBERS IN CHICAGO"

http://abc7.com/news/man-girlfriend-charged-in-brutal-murders-of-6-family-members-in-chicago/1347065/

Unbelievable - but they're busy with 24//7 Trump

MSM has been agitprop for bans for over 40 years.



The categories of shootings have been re-jiggered so much -- Mass Murder I (4 or more in one incident); Mass Murder II (now 3 or more in one incident); Mass Shooting (newest, with 4 or more shot -- not necessarily killed -- in one incident), Mltiple Shootings (still waiting for some kind of definition) -- all to inflate numbers, MSM may have an embarassment of "riches" with which to frighten the public in an already fear-besotted public. Trouble is, even the agitprop of MSM can figure out that increased gun sales are, as they remind us daily, due to heightened fear: Newz Media, meet mirror of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Said another way, some folks may be hoisted by their own petard.

Deaths by firearms are so normalized they aren't news anymore.

their minions take care of that for them.

But hey, GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM.

i must be doing it wrong. Haven't hurt a living thing in 35 years.

Hyperbole is dumb.

...then we would have stuck with 1791 gun technology.

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that is a pretty fucking stupid notion.

If you miss your one shot, or there are multiple intruders you're screwed.

semi-automatics make little problems into big problems fast.

rifles are rarely used for murder.

be careful around here, or you'll get pounced on when you say there's a difference.

unless you mean fully-automatic military weapons like Kalashnikovs. which are largely unavailable to the general public (although 2nd amendment absolutists would say that's unconstitutional).

by the constitutional militia.

"In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment, or that its use could contribute to the common defense."

Seems if Miller was carrying a BAR, according to this ruling, autos would be fully legal.

(NOT saying they should be - much has changed re: militia, standing armies etc.)

only has semi-automatic firearms.

I've just been around gun threads long enough to know that "assault rifle" is a trigger word for absolutists. gotta be precise in our terminology, or their feelings get hurt.

It was a shotgun.



Close enuff for government (ban) work?

The thread for which I'm sure you posted in. I made no claim about the "murder rate" one way or the other. I know it has declined. That doesn't make mass killings any less heinous.

Murder sure is "funny"!

these crimes are categorized under; now, the news can say we have almost one-a-day "Mass Shooings" when the def didn't exist for statistical purposes before 2011. And the venerable "Mass Murder" has gone from four to three to pump up the totals. The upshot is you can't have good analysis of ANY problem when the data is shifting. Are mass murders up or down, what is causing them, what can government do, etc.? We can indeed use rhetorical flourishes like "funny" murders, however.

than the general population

Mentally ill people are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it.

rather than 'anger'. Its something that a few hours, a day or two would 'cure'. But firearms make permanent victims of. The sort of malaise that with guns, makes suicide more successful too.