Post by robeiae on Feb 27, 2017 7:26:31 GMT -5
A bit of anecdotal evidence: nbc4i.com/2017/02/26/8-year-old-girl-shot-and-killed-moments-after-car-crash/
That is--imo--effed up. I saw the picture of the little girl in another article and just about lost it (she has a smile very much like the smile of my youngest). And I don't think it has jack to do with assault weapons. I don't know what kind of gun the person who did the shooting used, but I don't see how an assault weapon ban would impact someone who is given to this kind of action, at all.
Regardless, most people who are murdered via guns aren't murdered by people with assault weapons, aren't murdered by people on a mass-murdering killing spree. And people like this little girl deserve--imo--just as much sympathy, just as much attention as the victims in some high profile spree.
Personally, I'd like to see handguns banned, along with concealed carry and open carry permits. That would--imo--save a shot-ton more lives than an assault weapon ban.
That said, Don has the right of this, with regard to the Maryland ban: it's cosmetic and ill-conceived. Banning a specific make and model of gun because it's an "assault weapon," while allowing a different make and model that can do the exact same thing is pointless.
An 8-year-old girl is dead after she was shot and killed just moments after a car accident in Houston, Texas.
Latoyia Thomas was driving home after getting her hair done. Her daughter DeMaree Adkins was in the backseat of the car. When she began to go through an intersection, another car slammed into her vehicle.
“I put the car in park, and I reached down for my baby,” Thomas said. “I said, ‘Are you okay?’ because she was asleep. She never even knew what happened.”
The car that struck Thomas’ sped off, but another one pulled up. Thomas thought the woman driving was stopping to offer help, but things took a deadly turn.
“When I looked over, she pulled a gun out the window and she started shooting,” Thomas said.
Latoyia Thomas was driving home after getting her hair done. Her daughter DeMaree Adkins was in the backseat of the car. When she began to go through an intersection, another car slammed into her vehicle.
“I put the car in park, and I reached down for my baby,” Thomas said. “I said, ‘Are you okay?’ because she was asleep. She never even knew what happened.”
The car that struck Thomas’ sped off, but another one pulled up. Thomas thought the woman driving was stopping to offer help, but things took a deadly turn.
“When I looked over, she pulled a gun out the window and she started shooting,” Thomas said.
That is--imo--effed up. I saw the picture of the little girl in another article and just about lost it (she has a smile very much like the smile of my youngest). And I don't think it has jack to do with assault weapons. I don't know what kind of gun the person who did the shooting used, but I don't see how an assault weapon ban would impact someone who is given to this kind of action, at all.
Regardless, most people who are murdered via guns aren't murdered by people with assault weapons, aren't murdered by people on a mass-murdering killing spree. And people like this little girl deserve--imo--just as much sympathy, just as much attention as the victims in some high profile spree.
Personally, I'd like to see handguns banned, along with concealed carry and open carry permits. That would--imo--save a shot-ton more lives than an assault weapon ban.
That said, Don has the right of this, with regard to the Maryland ban: it's cosmetic and ill-conceived. Banning a specific make and model of gun because it's an "assault weapon," while allowing a different make and model that can do the exact same thing is pointless.