These four countries have nearly eliminated gun deaths- here's what the US can learn

Rifles, regardless of type, will always have greater muzzle velocities than handguns. That is a basic aspect of physics, and there is no way of changing such. This has been the case for the entire existence of handguns and rifles, with rifles always having the greater velocities of the two.

The individual responsible for the Virginia Tech incident needed neither an AR-15, nor magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition, to commit the deadliest school shooting in united states history. He committed his act with two handguns, neither of which qualified as a so-called "assault weapon" and with magazines that held only ten rounds of ammunition.

 

The united states congress determined otherwise. Even if the above were indeed accurate and correct, it does not mean the above would actually pass constitutional muster. The district of columbia claimed their total handgun prohibition saved lives, but the united state supreme court ruled against them anyway.

 

Modern semi-automatic firearms are no more dangerous or lethal than any other firearm currently on the planet, and differ little from the semi-automatic rifles first introduced on the private market at the start of the twentieth century.

 

Such would not be a problem if the citizenry of the nation of Australia truly supported the firearm-related restrictions of the country of their own volition, rather than being forced to accept such without consent. If the people were not actually listened to and merely told what to accept because they had no say in the matter, that is the fault of the government itself, not the NRA for presenting its message.

 

Ooooh! Methinks they accept it - didn’t you read the outrage in the thread about the NRA trying to influence oue of our political parties??

 

Now that response to an obviously sarcastic post is funny.
Curious... what is the rate of fire that makes a weapon a ‘rapid fire weapon’ unacceptable and worthy of banning?

 

Define ‘capability’.

 

While to date, I do not believe I have ever done so, I will take that as meaning you will keep your bull**** gun myths out of my country as well.

Now lets see who blows that agreement totally out of the water first.

 

The NRA-ILA was invited and paid to go to Australia and provide electioneering advice, as well as well as providing leads to obtaining funding for a group of pro-gun Australian politicians seeking office.

There is nothing illegal, nor immoral about politicians hiring outside consultants, nor is there anything illegal, nor immoral about an American company providing such advice when it is legally requested.

If you don't like that get your government to change their laws to make it illegal for their politicians to hire outside consultants, until that happens you have nothing to complain about to us here in the U.S..

 

These four countries have nearly eliminated gun deaths- here's what the US can learn.

What kind of deaths did they use to nearly replace them.

 

And, make it a totalitarian nightmare like the UK is becoming.

 

Australia eliminated 'gun deaths' but their murder rate went up.

Thats called failure.

 

we don't care what a nanny state does with its subjects. we are citizens, not subjects. And again, other than Aesop Fox syndrome, why are you so fixated and obsessed about rights we have and that you subjects gave up to your governmental overlords?

 

why are you whining about the NRA when you are trying to do the same thing here?

 

I suspect China and North Korea have almost no gun deaths perpetrated by Private citizens.

 

What do the citizens use to commit murder?

 

Anything they can get their hands on.

 

except for guns, of course.

 

They will have those too.

 

Sure, if by "multicultural" you mean 88% white European, 3% aboriginal, 4% Chinese and 5% "other".

 

no idea but I suspect the government kills enough to keep the most homicidal nuts there happy

 

How about Venezuela?

 

I thought it was the White Nationalists who want an all White USA? But you have a point. Ship minorities out, send Lefties and SJW to their socialist country of choice, and the US would become a paradise.

 

True assault weapons are capable of fully automatic rapic fire. Cosmetics has nothing to do with the difference between a true fully automatic assault weapon and a semi-automatic immitation assault weapon.

 

And the language of the prohibitions in various states does not make a distinguishment relating to such.