justsit wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2018 1:54 pmDick’s, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/busi ... ifles.html
A step in the right direction, as a direct result of Parkland:
"...immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores.
The retailer also said that it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and that it would not sell any gun to anyone under 21 years of age, regardless of local laws...."
“When we saw what happened in Parkland, we were so disturbed and upset,” Mr. Stack said in an interview Tuesday evening. “We love these kids and their rallying cry, ‘enough is enough.’ It got to us.”
He added, “We’re going to take a stand and step up and tell people our view and, hopefully, bring people along into the conversation.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-01/g ... ry/9495440Thousands of automatic rifles, handguns and a rocket launcher are among the weapons handed in during last year's National Firearms Amnesty.
The final results, released today, show 57,324 firearms were handed in between July and September across Australia to be registered or destroyed.
Authorities received around 2,500 fully-automatic or semi-automatic guns that were previously unaccounted for, and 2,900 handguns.
The rocket launcher was handed in to a licensed firearms dealer in Queensland, who believes it was once recovered at a local tip.
New South Wales received the highest number of firearms at 24,831, followed by Queensland on 16,375. Victorians handed in 9,175 guns.
Almost a third of the weapons were destroyed, with the rest either registered and handed back, or passed on to a licensed dealer for resale...
Locally (in the US, midwest no less!), a gun shop gave up the selling of assault rifles, will now refuse the sale of any weapons to people under the age of 21.
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Standing with a group of families who had traveled to the State Capitol from Parkland, an emotional Mr. Scott [who had an A-plus rating from the National Rifle Association] called the classmates of the slain students and their parents his inspiration, and praised them for helping persuade lawmakers to pass legislation, even if neither they nor he agreed with all of its provisions.
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That such a gun-friendly state adopted any firearm restrictions represents a sea change, even more so as the restrictions were drafted and approved in a matter of three weeks, after a bipartisan vote and the signature of a Republican governor likely to be on the ballot later this year as a Senate candidate.
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It's just another week in the United States.
I have to disagree with you. I think that statement is inaccurate and stems from being conditioned by an older copout paradigm from a time when people were not as connected and did not have as loud of a voice as they do now. That paradigm simply doesn't work for younger people. Also people of any age can hop on board. Now we have the tools of the internet, social media platforms, youtube, and iPhones and in this day and age and culture - as long as we have enough attitude (and trust me I have got a lot of it and so do many people) - we can make our VOICE heard and felt, and we will be listened to. This topic, and Climate Change are two topics that the younger generation are focused on with lazer-like intensity, and we will be heard and we will roll Republicans in 2020, there is no doubt. So people basically either need to hop on board, or hop out of discussion altogether. We are not backing down and we will be victorious. Failure is not an option. We must turn back these threats on our planet, and turn them back we will.justsit wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:43 pmStatistics are meaningless to those with the power to affect real change, and real danger isn't close enough to home. Maybe when some posh white boy goes off and slaughters a classroom of private school kids something will get done. Public school kids are disposable.
You could rally your laser intensity for the mid term elections in 2018 as well. They historically have a very poor turnout, and a big Democratic burst of enthusiasm right about now could help significantly change the numbers in DC. Just sayin'...
Yes, you are right.
No kid in the US even feels safe going to school right now.
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