Kevin Drum from Mother Jones believes he has the solution to mass murder. Drum wants to ban all semiautomatic firearms.
“I would ban all semiautomatics,” wrote Drum in a recent article. “That would leave the gun owners of America with three types of weapons they could legally own: single-action revolvers, shotguns, bolt-action/pump-action rifles.”
“That’s plenty for self-defense and for hunting, but pretty slim pickings for mass murder. Problem solved.”
Problem solved… Right? Wrong!
The FBI generally defines mass murder as “a number of murders (four or more) occurring during the same incident, with no distinctive time period between the murders.”
The sad truth of the matter is that for a determined and resourceful killer committing mass murder is easy. One certainly doesn’t need a semiautomatic firearm. Heck, one doesn’t need a firearm at all.
About a year ago, a suspected terrorist killed 8 people and wounded at least a dozen others on a crowded bicycle path near the World Trade Center in New York City. His weapon of choice? A rented pickup truck.
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And if Drum believes that this style of attack has limits in terms of its scale and effectiveness, he better think again. Nice, France, July of 2016. A Tunisian man runs a 19-ton cargo truck into throngs of revelers celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais. When the truck, badly damaged after its carnage-inducing ride, finally grinds to a halt 86 people would lose their lives and 434 more would be wounded.
The root cause of mass murder isn’t guns, it’s evil! And in the majority of instances, there is only one surefire way to stop evil in action. The use of force — deadly force.
Which means a responsible and conscientious citizen needs to be prepared to kill evildoers to save lives. Once one understands this any argument for subarming the law-abiding, another way to say place arbitrary restrictions on the type of firearms we can possess for self-defense, falls apart.
Because to ban semiautomatics is to inhibit one’s ability to confront and stop arsonists, rapists and, yes, mass murderers. These creeps already have a distinct advantage, as they have time to plan and prepare and plot out their depredations. Arguing that we should engage them with a narrow set of arms instead of ones more optimally suited for the job is the equivalent of asking us to jump in a boxing ring with one hand tied behind our backs.
What’s ironic, though, is that Drum doesn’t have a problem with law enforcement or the military using semiautomatics.
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He wrote, “But don’t worry, gun nuts. This [banning semiautomatics] will never happen and I have zero power to make it happen. It’s just a suggestion to gun control advocates that they should think bigger. No one outside of the military or law enforcement really needs the high-speed shooting of a semiautomatic. What they need is low-speed shooting and better training.”
I say that’s ironic because first responders aren’t always the first ones to respond to an attack. Citizens at the scene are. (Wonder if Drum knows that concealed carriers stopped 11.5 percent of active shooter incidents from 2000-2017? Can you imagine what that percentage would be if there was no multi-million dollar anti-gun crusade to suppress gun ownership in the U.S. and the government actually worked to empower people to keep and bear arms?) Logic would dictate that citizens are the ones who need to be fully armed more so than the cleanup crew that shows up after the killing’s done.
GunsAmerica reports on defensive gun uses all the time. Instances where law-abiding citizens use force, including deadly force, to protect themselves, their family and their property. It happens, by some estimates, millions of times each year. So, yeah, what Drum and other gun-control proponents are ultimately doing by pushing a ban on semi-autos is to make what is already a perilous task all the more perilous.
Ban Mother Jones. If we are to ignore our God given right to self protection then the right to speak about it will soon follow. The media have become their own undoing. Usefull Idiots.
Every gun banner should be made to answer these three questions. Q1. How do guns select their victims.
Q2. How do guns get to the scene of the crime. Q3. Why are guns not adjudicated in a Court of Law.
First blog ever. Mr. drum suggests less volume of fire and more training for civilians. If he has developed any listening skills he could be advised (my perception)that military or civilian shooting skills are not refined at Walmart. I interpret defining “tactical” or para-military as equipment desired,preferred or suitable for military or police. A word more effective in a marketing format these days. Tactical gloves, shoes,watches,etc. The trend of the future. I would define assault weapon as firing a less than adequate round at a higher cyclic rate of fire enabling shooter to carry more ammo. Person doesn`t have to be so well trained. The gloves and shoes and such have to go also. How trained or equipped do deranged animals have to be to kill and maim non combatant “soft targets”? Sometimes you have to shoot back. I moreso blame mental illness and moral decay.
All these dipshits that think criminals will obey a new law are braindead.
What about cars and fertilizer and and horny hogs ?
Well, Mr Drum, personally I would ban Leftist rag publications that support infringing on other’s rights. But that’s just me.
The problem with folks like Mr Drum, is they have grand ideas, but expect the Govt to “carry their water” for them. Hey, want my semi auto? Come in person, and take it. Double dog dare you.
Poor Drum. He either doesn’t know about double action revolvers or he thinks they’re somehow semi-automatic. They aren’t with one exception, the Fosberry-Webly revolver of the early 1900s. Most double action wheel guns can also be fired single action, so how’s it going to be determined as to what action the revolver is?
Another example of opening mouth before engaging brain & education (common these days).
What is needed is an adult on the Control side and an adult on the Freedom side discussing the matter, not uninformed ignoramuses trying to make policy. I suspect the real cause of all this violence is the general approval of bigotry and racism by the President and his crew of petty criminals. When the atmosphere is favorable, the marginal nut cases get active. Get an adult in the White House and a lot of this will stop. We also need one Draconian law: Use a gun to kill someone and you DIE – regardless of mental state or social position. You kill with hate, you die; period. No appeals, no excuses, you are killed within a year of conviction. That may serve to stop some fools.
You do realize that these mass shootings go back to JFK, increased during Bush no. 1, then again during both Clinton and Obama administrations. So blaming the present administration is also a case of “opening mouth before engaging brain and education” if you think this has to do with bigotry and racism then why is the shooter usually white and victims are white. The real link is this mentality of treating mental issues with drugs and not properly taking care and if necessary locking them up.
You were doing pretty good UNTIL you made the stupid comment–
” I suspect the real cause of all this violence is the general approval of bigotry and racism by the President and his crew of petty criminals.”
Just invalidated yourself, as far as I’m concerned.
I’d say ignore this ignorant fool, but we used to do that, and it got us the GCA1968, GCA1986, and the ASB. We are on the right have finally figured out the Zealots on the left will never give up on their lunacy.
Be vigilant friends.
prohabition did not work with booz in the 20’s and it will not work with guns now. I have 3 simi auto, self loading, weapons . Not one of them has broken out of my gun safe and harmed anyone. Two of the above are AR’S one a 15 and the other a 10
It sounds like Kevin Drum never saw JERRY MICULEK in action!
Personally I would prefer to end the semi-automatics and just beat you with a stout stick. Its biofriendly and would not garner support like the well divided gun industry. Carry a big stick, oh yeah!
When guns are outlawed, the price will go up.
Govt. “buy-back” for $50? ROFLMAO!
Everyone will sell theirs on the Black Market for 2-3 times its value. And who buys guns on the Black Market?
Criminals will think they are WonderLand.
We need to form a militia of gunowners willing to protest en mass and fight for our rights. Individually we are weak targets for the leftist Democrat SS. All of this gun control, gun ban nonsense is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and we need to press that into their feeble minds over and over again.
If one ever gets started , I will be in line to sign up , immediately !! We need several of them, like east coast, west coast and in the mid somewhere and then communicate to align forces ! Damn good idea !!!
Un-Constitutional? They’ve got a “solution” for that, too. Repeal the 2nd Amendment; they’ve said it.
Criminals would not give up their semi-automatics, and neither would cops and military, nor would a foreign enemy. Anyone who thinks gun control will solve problems is delusional. Gun control just disarms the non-problematic, law-abiding citizens but makes us less safe because criminals know fewer of their victims will be armed.
Do not tell Mother Jones this, but you can buy pump action AR-15 rifles. A pump action rifle with a thirty round magazine does not have a rate of fire much slower than a semi automatic rifle with a thirty round magazine.
There is no compromising with people who want semi automatics banned. Make no mistake about it, they want all private civilian guns gone in the United States.
No free man shall be debarred the use of arms.
Mother Jones is a lot late to that game. Politicians such as Dianne Feinstein and Chucky Schumer have been trying to do that for decades and were partially successful in the 90s with the Clinton “Assault Weapons” ban.
Furthermore Mother Jones is a liberal magazine that appeals to the Bernie Sanders type therefore I’m surprised they don’t call for a total ban on the private ownership of all guns. However what disturbs me more is those hunters also known as fudds who want to ban semi autos. They think that once the govenment bans semi autos their precious hunting rifles are safe. They do more harm to gun rights then these commie periodicals do.
I would also ban all cels phones, my life have been endangered by people talking while driving in three or four instances.
Does anybody really believe Americans will give up there semi automatic pistols and rifles ? Really ?
There’s no way in Hell you get mine without paying a hefty price.
The question is: How would a determined criminal be prevented from obtaining and using a semi auto weapon, considering the vast number of such guns in existence?
this man of knowledge wants more than your firearms, but due to the way you think, he wants your life. however due to his beliefs that would be justified. wow
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OK, so everyone turns in their semi-auto rifles and pistols.
Then soon after that some mentally ill idiot who has had his brain poisoned by Democrat diatribe shoots up a place like a school, church, hospital or where-ever with 2 or 3 revolvers. Then the celebutards start calling for the confiscation of all pistols.
Then another idiot and product of the Liberal Democrat education system does a Charles Whitman, kills his family then finds a tower or someplace high and just starts offing people with a bolt-action rifle,,, now the Leftist want all your rifles too….
The filthy Leftist Socialist Democrats don’t want anyone outside of the police, military or their personal security personnel “under their control” to own a gun.
They want your AR15, they want your 9MM, your shot guns your 38 special, your 22…
The Democrats don’t even want you to posses Black Powder guns,,, they want your swords and machetes, They wany your Archery gear and any manufactured sling shots.
The Communist/Socialist Democrats would make you register your steak knives if they could.
You want to help the Republic and you’re Kevin Drum of Mother Jones?
Censor yourself, and disband Libby Leftist digital rags with narrow thinking mindless points of view on anything to do with limiting guns to law abiding Americans.
More gun laws wont solve anything it just makes criminals out of legal citizens and more gun laws make more crime ,death these idiots think banning guns will solve the problem. Next will be knife laws !
Uh, they are doing that in the UK. The murder rate in London is higher than NYC with knives and acid attacks. And as a note for sportsmen who think their bolt action rifles and single shot shotguns are safe, you are not. What do you think they’ll come for next.
If it were possible to make every firearm in the US disappear do you think the killing would stop? Ever since two apes fell out of a tree and one killed the other with a rock to keep him from stealing his food humans have devised more efficient ways to mass-slaughter each other. When I was in Vietnam one of the most effective weapons I saw was napalm, if it didn’t burn you alive it suffocated you to death, it was so effective that the Geneva Convention banned it from its use after the war. A home-made version of it can be made up in your kitchen sink…….so how long do you think it would take for some deranged sick-o to try this out on a nightclub full of kids, believe me, there’s a lot worse weapons out there than guns if you’re determined to wipe out large sums of people.