Several Dead in Dark Knight Premiere Mass Shooting

If we are going to get in to the "Ban" arena, why are we banning assault weapons. What do they do that some other firearms do not? They don't really do anything that a Glock 19 (or 40k other guns do not) won't do.
If we're going to ban....let's have it work and not just just more feel good nonsense for an uninformed public.
But on the subject of Federal bans and success of same. How we doing with the ban on illegal drugs?
Lets do something that may work......

Balance. I think you can reasonably claim that hand guns can be used for protection where as the case simply isn't there for assault weapons, and it certainly isn't for semi-automatic machine guns masquerading as deer rifles.

100 round AR-15 clips? For what? War? Hunting?

The anti gun argument is flawed for one very simple reason: reality. These things already exist. Even if you made them illegal tomorrow, there are so many in existence through both legal and illegal channels that you will never prevent something like this. It's an undeniable tragedy but to place the blame on an inanimate object when there are countless alternatives capable of achieving the exact same level of destruction... That's just irresponsible and shortsighted thinking. If we could go back in time and "un-invent" guns (might as well get rid of nukes and all pointy objects while we've got the flux capacitor fired up) then I would agree with saden's point.

Balance. I think you can reasonably claim that hand guns can be used for protection where as the case simply isn't there for assault weapons, and it certainly isn't for semi-automatic machine guns masquerading as deer rifles.

100 round AR-15 clips? For what? War? Hunting?
I don't think any responsible hunter (and that assumes much) would with a straight face claim an AR-15 to be a deer rifle...yet some do no doubt.
That having been said, I do not really have a problem with a ban that would have a chance of working.
I do not believe for a moment that this type of action has any chance of success. We cannot stop the drug trade...HELL, we cannot get the borders closed and it MUST be more difficult to smuggle humans than something as small as a gun? And as has already been pointed we have 300m guns in this country........good luck
In this country, we have a serious social problem and IMO until we get serious about trying to deal with some of those issues, you can lay out any "Ban" type plan that is attractive. It will only serve to drive responsible Sportsman and shooters like myself.........underground.
Hmmm, the Sportsman formally known as Hog1.......
I did stray a bit afield....100 round clips can go, but they are amusing as long as somebody else is buying the ammo

Don't want this to turn into a gun rights discussion, but banning guns like the AR-15 isn't going to do diddly squat to curtail a evil man from being evil.


Name me the type of gun used by any of these mass murders.

Ted Bundy
Jeffrey Dahmer
Albert DeSalvo
Timothy McVeigh

Guns don’t kill people | The Daily (http://dailyuw.com/news/2011/feb/03/guns-dont-kill-people/)


..and to think I was being accused of being a dem/liberal card carrying hippie.

We're delving into another issue entirely. Fact is innocent people are dead. Maybe we should focus on that.

This.

Anyways, seems this kid dyed his hair red and told the cops he was "The Joker". I'd say somewhere along the line, he snapped and went over the edge. Also, I've read a crazy rumor about why his apartment was rigged with explosives.

Ban cars. They killed far more Americans this year than guns did.

Well, away from the should guns be banned topic, I'm personally glad to see this guy alive. So many times these idiots just do crazy shit then kill themselves (Columbine, VT Tech, etc) and we're all left wondering what the hell happened? What caused them to snap? Were they crazy all along? At least with this guy alive, he'll have to explain himself at some point.

I think someone mentioned they wished the guy had went along and killed himself, that's why I don't. I doubt an explanation of any sort will provide closure for those who lost their loved ones, but I'd rather be left with something instead of nothing.

And rest easy, although Colorado hasn't executed anyone in sometime, the death penalty is still alive and well there.

Don't want this to turn into a gun rights discussion, but banning guns like the AR-15 isn't going to do diddly squat to curtail a evil man from being evil.


Name me the type of gun used by any of these mass murders.

Ted Bundy
Jeffrey Dahmer
Albert DeSalvo
Timothy McVeigh

Guns don’t kill people | The Daily (http://dailyuw.com/news/2011/feb/03/guns-dont-kill-people/)


..and to think I was being accused of being a dem/liberal card carrying hippie.



This.

Anyways, seems this kid dyed his hair red and told the cops he was "The Joker". I'd say somewhere along the line, he snapped and went over the edge. Also, I've read a crazy rumor about why his apartment was rigged with explosives.

What was the rumor?

I think this may have been his master plan. He rigged his place with explosives and trip wires and turned the music (via timer) on loud hoping to draw the police via neighbor complaints. Once the police kicked in the door, the bombs would have gone off, and it would created the diversion for him to have more time to kill.



Did Aurora, CO shooting suspect James Holmes try luring someone into apartment? (http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/did-aurora-co-shooting-suspect-james-holmes-try-luring-someone-into-apartment)


Did I mention that I was really disappointed they took this asshole alive.

Ban cars. They killed far more Americans this year than guns did.

OMG dont say that, liberals love their cars.

You're not offering much of a choice, especially those who are in the line of the fire or explosion. I mean, would you rather have your eyes gouged or have the left side of your brain removed?

Banning "assault weapons" will stop someone from shooting 71 people in a crowded theater in a short period. It certainly works in the rest of the civilized world, I can't imagine it won't work here.

Yeah horrible choice regardless. Awful choices. But one of humanities saving graces, perhaps now defining faults, has been our ingenuity. If someone wants to harm a mass amount of people they will. So while banning assault weapons may stop someone from shooting 71 people, it wont necessarily stop them from killing and maiming 71 people.

More importantly a gun, even scary ones, allow a person to protect themselves. And while a handgun may suffice in most situations it certainly wont in all. When theres massive civil unrest horrible things can happen that local municipalities arnt able to calm. Its happening in Mexico right now. When the Rodney King Riots broke out it happened in LA, when Katrina hit it happened in NO.

If you have the resources to get out of dodge when something bad is brewing more power to you. But if youre too poor to leave, stuck by chance, or just want to ride it out you should have the right to protect yourselves at all means.

Guns, assault rifles, 100 round mags, and other scary things arnt the problem, theyre just the scapegoat.