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Finally!
That’s despite what Wayne LaPierre’s Wingman has been parroting lately, that “It’s not the gun that pulls the trigger, it’s the person holding the gun.”
Physics and common sense would say otherwise:
No, it’s the High-capacity gun — that’s ripping people’s lives to shreds.
A hunter’s .22 small caliber gun just doesn’t do the same damage — just ask any Cop, EMT, or Trauma-room responder. BIG bullets, fired in rapid succession, do WAY more damage that smaller bullets spread out with some lag time between the killer’s shots.
The right to bear arms should not be interpreted to mean the right to slaughter innocent by-standers by the the dozens — in a matter of seconds.
If that is the hill the GOP wants to die on — what’s next? Rapid-fire Bazookas with CHM65 (High-Explosive Anti-Tank) shells? … Available to any card-carrying NRA member, at a gun show?
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It’s not the gun that kills people — it’s the bullets.
The Simple Physics That Makes Some Bullets Deadlier Than Others
How higher speed, greater mass, and more surface area increase the damage that rounds can do to human bodies.
by Alex Yablon, theTrace.org -- June 21, 2017
The bullet that struck U.S. Representative Steve Scalise last week was traveling at somewhere between 1,100 and 2,600 feet per second. The projectile, a 7.62 x 39 bullet, hit the House majority whip with between 370 and 1,550 foot-pounds of force. The rifle round, which is longer than a pistol projectile, likely also began tumbling after its point collided with his hip. That meant that the tip didn’t just bore straight through him, but rather that the whole length of the projectile rotated over and over through Scalise’s body, ripping a wider hole and distributing a bigger shock wave throughout his bones and tissue.
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Dr. Peter Rhee is a trauma surgeon who operated on victims of the 2011 shooting at a political event in Tucson, Arizona, in which six people were killed and 13 wounded in a hail of 9mm bullets. Rhee explained that the more massive the projectile, the more severe the wound.
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Shooting survivors and their caregivers describe a lifetime of chronic pain, repeated surgeries years after being shot, and challenges to everyday living that come from losing parts of vital organs, like a woman who has to buy her son expensive protein shakes after he lost much of his stomach.
[some simple examples: ]
The human body is No Match — for High Capacity rounds, fired in rapid succession.
It’s only common sense.
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Of course you would have thought that the Nation would have learned that Lesson after Sandy Hook, or after any of a very long line of such uniquely American “tragedies” … [I use quotes because tragedies are usually unavoidable.]
PS. The Lesson was often learned. But in most cases the un-elected NRA exercised their over-ruling power of their ‘unofficial Veto’.
Or put more bluntly: With the GOP in Office — the NRA always has the Final Word ... (no matter the body count of the innocent by-standers)
Congress considers banning weapons that have caused carnage in shopping malls, schools, and city streets.
by Mark Follman, Jaeah Lee, Gavin Aronsen, motherjones.com -- Feb 27, 2013
[See opening graphic, for their Study’s results.]
More than half of the killers we studied in our investigation of 62 mass shootings over the last three decades possessed weapons that would be banned by Feinstein’s bill, including various semi-automatic rifles, guns with military features, and handguns using magazines with more than 10 rounds. [...]
Ultimately, “assault weapon” and “high-capacity magazine” are political terms—there is no official or widely accepted definition for either, and different legislation has treated them differently. Feinstein’s new bill seeks to improve upon the 1994 ban she authored, which expired in 2004; gun manufacturers easily sidestepped that law by making superficial modifications to their weapons.
The new legislation aims to outlaw weapons that let a shooter fire a large number of bullets quickly without having to reload. Law enforcement officials we consulted generally considered that to be a reasonable approach for distinguishing between firearms used for sport or self-defense and military-style weapons designed to maximize body counts.
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Fast-forward … how many countless, needless gun-deaths in the mean time (since 2012) ?
Our NRA-ruled Nation is still dealing with the scourge of War-time weapons, used on a whim — against unarmed civilians.
And the Nation, as a result of the rapid-fire massacres at Gilroy, and El Paso, and Dayton — have just about had “our fill” of the NRA (and the stooges that bow-down to them).
So much so — that one lone republican has dared to stand with the fed-up Nation, and NOT with the NRA bullies … Enough is finally enough. Behold the 1st crack in the dam ...
by Chris Mills Rodrigo, thehill.com -- 08/19/19
Rep. Pete King (N.Y.) is the first House Republican to back a bill in the chamber seeking to ban assault weapons.
"They are weapons of mass slaughter," King told the New York Daily News on Monday shortly after his support for the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 as a co-sponsor became public on Congress's website.
“I don’t see any need for them in everyday society,” he added.
The bill, rolled out in February by Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), has 200 Democratic co-sponsors.
It would ban semi-automatic firearms and large-capacity magazines, proposals which have drawn more attention following back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left a combined 32 dead and dozens more injured earlier this month.
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Enough is finally enough — either the Rule of the NRA, or the rule of GOP — has got to go!
If you agree — then DO Something.
Support your local Gun-safety candidate.
Sound off to your local Newspaper about this needless and senseless violence from within.
Become informed about “Domestic terrorism” and speak out against the Hate Groups that continue to promote the slaughter victimizing of innocents.
And if you have a few extra bucks, send them this way — to the Parkland Kids who lived through it. Kids who are fighting like Hell, to bring accountability and sanity and safety, back to American streets and neighborhoods.
March For Our Lives. Peace Plan.
Never again … should the survivors of high-powered Gun-violence … be the only ones rising up to say:
#NEVER AGAIN !
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Commit this to memory:
The right to bear arms should not be interpreted to mean the right to slaughter innocent by-standers by the the dozens — in a matter of seconds.
THAT is NOT what America stands for. (The Founders used Muskets for gosh sake.)
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Now if only a few more Republicans would join the citizen’s Fight against NRA-rule.
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That, or ...
That, or become extinct like the clueless Whigs before them — if Protecting Assault Weapons, is indeed the issue they want to stake their careers on.
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Dayton Shooting Lasted Just 32 Seconds and Left 9 Dead.
Just another day, in NRA’s not-so-great America.
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#EnoughIsEnough
VOTE — like your Life depended on it — if you agree.
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