Normally I do as well. But little Tex has a definite problem in that no matter WHAT common sense information you give him it won't make any difference in his thought process. He is only interested in doing away with firearms, ALL firearms, though he will swear he only wants to do away with the AR and AK type rifles for now. But of course after those are gone he will start on anything sounding like 9mm semi autos. The fact that I have Glock 40 caliber pistols doesn't bother him at all for the present. Glock 40 and 45 caliber pistols are perfectly fine. It is like Biden tells us, the 9mm is EVIL. Apparently other pistol calibers are GOOD calibers. Magazine size does not matter either with other pistols but with the 9mm it better be 10 or less. Up to 15 or more in a 40 is acceptable to little Tex.

The point is he doesn't know shit from Shinola regarding firearms. He only knows they are evil and need to be gone. Of course knives, baseball bats, claw hammers, screw drivers and hatchets, all great weapons of murder, used frequently, are not evil so are acceptable.

Dennis

Normally I do as well. But little Tex has a definite problem in that no matter WHAT common sense information you give him it won't make any difference in his thought process. He is only interested in doing away with firearms, ALL firearms, though he will swear he only wants to do away with the AR and AK type rifles for now. But of course after those are gone he will start on anything sounding like 9mm semi autos. The fact that I have Glock 40 caliber pistols doesn't bother him at all for the present. Glock 40 and 45 caliber pistols are perfectly fine. It is like Biden tells us, the 9mm is EVIL. Apparently other pistol calibers are GOOD calibers. Magazine size does not matter either with other pistols but with the 9mm it better be 10 or less. Up to 15 or more in a 40 is acceptable to little Tex.

The point is he doesn't know shit from Shinola regarding firearms. He only knows they are evil and need to be gone. Of course knives, baseball bats, claw hammers, screw drivers and hatchets, all great weapons of murder, used frequently, are not evil so are acceptable.

Dennis

And as usual you are full of CRAP. The 2nd Amendment does not discriminate about different firearms and semi autos have been around for over 100 years now. Never a problem before. Just one more type of firearm action. No matter whether a single shot or a repeater it is still the person that misuses the firearm and not the firearm that causes the person to become a murderer. How stupid you people on the Left must be to think like that. Even more stupid is your idiotic attempts to get me and others to believe in the same bullshit you are pushing.

Dennis

Boss UHHawg - "The 2nd Amendment does not discriminate about different firearms and semi autos have been around for over 100 years now."

No one said it did. You asked ... " The AR and AK platform rifles have been available for over 50 years now. Why were they not used for school killings back then? Anybody could buy them. No Liberal Bull Shit uproar back then. So what changed?"

*I told you what happened. You can't handle the fact that the US flipped out and Yanks slaughter Yanks at an ever accelerating rate. More mass shootings than calendar dates so far this year. What's your solution the the new 'shithole war zone US' ?

*Aug 1, 2022 05:30:26, this thread.

You told me what happened??? How the hell does anyone ever understand you and your constant insulting gibberish bullshit? You are nothing but Massa this, Cap'n that with about anything else in between. You never seem to GET nobody really pays any attention to your idiotic comments. I rarely read anything you post because of the above. I don't have the time to play childish simple games with you. You put down my employment as do others, employment that not one of you has the balls to take on, let alone excel in doing it with positive accomplishments.

For my money you contribute nothing of a positive nature nor have you ever in The Attic. You are a waste of time.

Dennis

Capt'n Bobo - "The AR and AK platform rifles have been available for over 50 years now. Why were they not used for school killings back then? Anybody could buy them. No Liberal Bull Shit uproar back then. So what changed? You tell me/us."

Up until the Columbine school shooting, school deaths were mostly single digit, usually one or two victims, starting in 1840. *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(before_2000)

*list does not include regular mass shootings, only school shootings.

After Columbine, blame is sheeted home to the lapse of the ban on military weapons and irresponsible gun merchant advertising.



This article gives a timeline of assault-weapons ban sunset and then Bush signed a bill that gave broad protection from liability to gun makers."

"The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer. Now It’s Killing Us." (edited by Tex, much more at link)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/firearms-industry-marketing-mass-shooter/670621/

" ... When I got my first job in the gun industry, in 1995, the marketing centered on hunting, target shooting, and responsible self-defense. Many advertisements evoked a love of craftsmanship and the outdoors, and some, like this 1995 Ruger ad, even directly addressed its customers as “responsible citizens”—a tagline the company dropped from its advertising in 2007.

Companies such as the European American Armory, an importer of cheap, mostly Eastern European guns, that used cheesy ads—like this one from 2008—to sell imported guns were a rarity. Little did I realize that those tacky exceptions were the gun industry’s future. Those ads, designed to appeal to young men who knew no better, were the starting point for marketing that would create a new customer base and change our country forever.

This transformation received its first boost in the mid-aughts when President George W. Bush allowed the assault-weapons ban to sunset and then signed a bill that gave broad protection from liability to gunmakers. Combined, those moves reduced the social stigma and potential legal penalties for edgy marketing of military-style rifles.

Young men were the target. They had disposable income, a long customer life, and a readily exploited fascination with guns. The push to access these new customers took off in 2010 when the AR-15 maker Bushmaster launched its “Man Card” advertising campaign.

A Bushmaster ad with a picture of a rifle and the words, "Consider your man card reissued."
(Bushmaster Firearms International)
The ads, which ran in several gun-industry publications, on websites, and in Maxim magazine, were controversial and gained national attention. More important, they showed the rest of the industry the power of an appeal based on masculinity to the 18–35 male demographic, at a time when images from America’s foreign wars were airing constantly on the evening news.

“The Bushmaster Man Card declares and confirms that you are a Man’s Man, the last of a dying breed, with all the rights and privileges duly afforded,” the ad copy read. If you’re hearing there, in “dying breed,” an anticipatory echo of the “Great Replacement” theory that inspired the alleged killer in May’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, you’re not mistaken: The conclusion that this type of marketing has contributed to creating today’s radical violent extremists is inescapable. ... " more at ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/firearms-industry-marketing-mass-shooter/670621/