The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[trish]

While the LA police were giving a demonstration at an elementary school a child pulls the trigger on AK-15 that was mounted on one of their motorcycles. Three children suffered shrapnel injuries. The weapon had several fail-safes that all seemed to have failed. Police are puzzled and have removed the mounted AK-15's from their other cycles until they figure out what went wrong. If only teachers had guns, this might have been prevented.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/c...arges-20662317

[Prospero]

what fast approaching gun ban? Time and speed are very flexible concepts.

[Ben in LA]

Then we have this. Thankfully major damage was averted...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ested/3176435/

[notdrunk]

While the LA police were giving a demonstration at an elementary school a child pulls the trigger on AK-15 that was mounted on one of their motorcycles. Three children suffered shrapnel injuries. The weapon had several fail-safes that all seemed to have failed. Police are puzzled and have removed the mounted AK-15's from their other cycles until they figure out what went wrong. If only teachers had guns, this might have been prevented.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/c...arges-20662317

Didn't you get the memo? Law enforcement officers are the only ones professional enough to handle a firearm..

What is a safety switch? I can guarantee that the officer didn't have the safety on. He probably thought he was being super awesome with the rifle having a round in the chamber with the safety off.

[trish]

No, you can't. The safety may not have been functioning. But what the fuck is anyone doing bringing loaded AR-15's to a public school in the first place?!

[Stavros]

Maybe every school should have its own Tank. America, it's time. No, not a fish tank.

[Prospero]

What about flamethrowers?

[yodajazz]

They are retiring most of these. Why not place them on school properties, to insure safety? No middle school-er could to stand up to their big guns.

[thombergeron]

Didn't you get the memo? Law enforcement officers are the only ones professional enough to handle a firearm..

Riiiight. Because responsible, law-abiding civilian gun owners never experience accidental discharges.

It appears you've missed the point again.

[yodajazz]

Riiiight. Because responsible, law-abiding civilian gun owners never experience accidental discharges.

It appears you've missed the point again.

I think he was being sarcastic. Changing the subject, with all the firearms in private hands, do you think a foreign army could come here and take over? The answer is no. So why do we need the world's largest government arsenal? The answer seems to be to exert power over other nations. And that power benefits large money interests, more than anyone else. It has very little to do with defense. But lots of people did not consider this, when the case for invading Iraq was put out.