Is it time to talk about guns?

Of course, much would depend on what would count as a showing of need. If I said, "I need an AR-15 cuz I live in the woods and there are grizzly bars there, would that be enough?" Or "I live in a high crime area? Does Canada have those?

 

The gist of the meme was that neither is particularly dangerous. But an examining physician at Uvalde testified that children shot by an AR-15 were essentially decapitated--so badly disfigured that DNA had to be used to identify them. I'd call that pretty dangerous. Euclid's Elements: "Things which equal the same thing also equal one another." So if the rifle depicted here is just as dangerous as an AR-15, presumably it should be banned or restricted, too--lest we have more headless kids, teachers, grandmas in grocery stores, etc., to have to identify. It makes such a mess! Cleanup on aisle four!

 

Because that's Canada, I didn't have much say. I will say that why you want it should not have any bearing on whether you can, and that should include ccw permits. The Supreme Court will very likely decide the same this week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/18/supreme-court-guns-ruling/

The danger comes from the intentions of the person, not the appearance of the firearm.

 

It's not the appearance of the firearm that's the issue, but what it has been shown to do, quite recently: e.g., kids decapitated with an AR-15. And you continue to paddle down that long river in Africa oblivious to it all.

 

Please explain to me how an ar15 fires a roughly .22cal. projectile so much more violently than other .22 or .223 rifles that it removes children's heads. While I'm certain there were injuries to the victims that were difficult to look at, they weren't because a .223 fired from an autoloading rifle is the most lethal thing ever created in regards to firearms. They were because of the actions of the person who had it in his hands.

 

There's a saying in the law :res ipsa loquitor (the thing speaks for itself). Fact: A kid with an AR-15 killed 19 children. Fact: Some were virtually decapitated, making identification impossible without DNA. Do you think that this phenomenon was accounted for by the fact that an 18 year old disturbed kid pulled the trigger instead of someone else? AR-15s were also used to kill and maim crowds of innocent people at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado; a workplace party in San Bernadino, and a grocery store in Buffalo, NY., among others Mass shooters like them not only because they pack serious firepower--can use high capacity magazines, and are user friendly, having limited recoil, which helps with accuracy. Nobody said it's the most lethal thing ever. Just that it's pretty lethal, more so than other kinds of rifles. Your cruise down that long river in Africa is gettin' old.

 

I didn't post the pictures of the two rifles, I only responded that I hope neither should be banned.
The difference between an ar15 and M16 is the ammunition they're designed to fire. ar15 =.223, M16 = 5.56. Aside from the M16 being fully automatic, it fires the high pressure 5.56 round required by NATO, not the low-pressure 223 used in all sorts of sporting rifles. There are major differences in the rifling of the barrels between the two, also to accommodate one firing low pressure .223 vs military/NATO spec 5.56. They may use the same method of auto reloading (platform), but are different firearms.
As far as the machining one can do to an actual ar15 and what can be created using the same platform, they're not ar15s and shouldn't be compared to them.

 

It had more to do with how many times he pulled it and where the rounds landed that required two of those children to undergo extensive reconstruction before their funeral viewings.
It wasn't the ar15s ability to decapitate children, which didn't happen.

 

Same exact firearm. Grips, suppressors, stocks and magazines don't change a thing.

 

Completely different firearms, built using the same platform.

 

The “magic “ we saw in Uvalde, Texas?

 

Ruger Mini-14 - Wikipedia


The Mini-14 is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Co. Introduced in 1973, it is based on the M14 rifle and is essentially a scaled-down version chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO.

It is made in a number of variants, including: the Ranch Rifle (a basic, civilian variant), the Mini-14 GB, and the Mini Thirty, which is chambered for 7.62×39mm.

The rifle is currently used by military personnel, law-enforcement personnel, and civilians in the United States and around the world.

 

None of your Uvalde "magic" was committed by a firearm.

 

So... He threw rocks at the kids?

 

If he did I didn't hear about it.
I heard he used a firearm.
I definitely didn't hear about a firearm shooting it's grandmother, wrecking a pickup, shooting at people at a funeral, then entering a school and killing children. That was a person who did that.