The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by a group of gun rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland’s ban on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines under the Second Amendment.
The decision, a major win for gun safety advocates, leaves in place a ruling by the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that the state may constitutionally prohibit sale and possession of the weapons.
The state legislation, enacted in 2013 after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, specifically targets the AR-15 – the most popular rifle in America with 20-30 million in circulation. They are legal in 41 of the 50 states.
Good.
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Lese mass killing guns in the U.S. is good. Unless you support killing kids for your ideology.
Bad faith arguments like this are why sane people don’t take reddit opinions seriously.
Meaning you do support the mass killing g of children.
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The kinds of people who do mass killings have parents and grandparents who already have these kinds of guns and pass them down. They’ll pass em down to their kids too. It more stops new purchases, like people who are trying to defend themselves from the first group of people I described.
If you would ban a specific kind of gun you should introduce a good way for people to get rid of the guns. Australia did this by using a gun buyback program.
America has gun buybacks too, fairly regularly too. There’s still more guns than people in the country.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Uvalde, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Orlando, Virginia Tech (handguns, but guns are guns), I could go on, all purchased their weapons specifically for the purposes of what they did with them. The people you are talking about tend to be the most responsible and respectable owners of guns, statistically. City folk with a history of mental instability and their freshly purchased assault weapons are overwhelmingly the problem, not people that were raised around guns used for hunting animals and taught to respect and safety use them from the time they could hold one.
That’s cope bullshit.
Sure buddy.
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Ah yes “guns don’t kill people, people do”
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That is a real head in the sand point if view. Guns are definitely an issue.
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I think he’s referring to the fact that our government is looking more authoritarian. Ok, it is, it just is now.