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To: Lane3 who wrote (57672)	2/23/2018 1:03:01 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 362111

I have over the last few days moved from throwing up my hands and muttering "shit happens" to lack of opposition to outlawing the sale of military weapons on the grounds that it's cheap and it just might mitigate somewhat. (I consider the weapons we have been discussing to be military weapons.) I have always thought that background checks should be required for all weapons sales. I've recently realized that we need to beef up attention to maintaining the records that go into that, which might have avoided Las Vegas. I don't know a lot about it but I think that this mechanism that has developed in a few states to temporarily remove the guns of threatening persons is worth consideration. Schools are a special case. It does seem that the shooters in these incidents are students who were outcast or otherwise didn't fit in. I'm not sure if I posted this here or not, but it really addresses what I believe is the essence of most school shootings. It is certainly the kind of thinking that that it will take to ultimately bring about a long-term solution to this problem. It probably takes ten years to implement. I'm not saying THIS particular thing (although this is good) is a solution, but the concept of bringing kids who are outcasts out of the corners and into the center. www-rd-com.cdn.ampproject.org

To: Lane3 who wrote (57672)	3/3/2018 12:12:09 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 362111

I consider the weapons we have been discussing to be military weapons. Military weapons aren't at issue here. An AR-15 is a light semi-auto rifle. Yes it looks just like an M-16, even has a number of similar parts and part of its operation works the same, but its not full auto. Take a typical hunting rifle, and you get a weapon that looks less military but still fires one shot per trigger pull. The more powerful round most hunting rifles shoot will mean it will take more practice to get used to the recoil, but also means each hit is more likely to kill. Its true the AR-15 is likely to have a higher capacity magazine. That's partially because your using smaller rounds. But even with the larger rounds you can get high capacity magazines for heavier rifles. Anything that can accept an external magazine can have a high capacity magazine made for it.