This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1417050
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1417050
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Do hotels in Texas agree that it is a good idea to allow people to bring their guns into the hotel? Does this mean there could be a few dozen guns in a hotel without the hotel’s knowledge?
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And yet Texas has the second highest number of school shootings in the US 135 since 1970. CA is number 1 with 164.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/school-shootings-by-state
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And yet they’re not responsible enough to buy beer until 21. Because alcohol baaaaaadddd. Gunz gud!
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In 1982 President Ronald Reagan forced all states to raise their drinking age to 21 by withholding any federal highway funds from states that failed to comply. Reagan was challenged legally by several states and the Supreme Court found in Reagan’s favor, that he could withhold the federal funds if states failed to raise their drinking age to 21.
So my question is why does Joe Biden not do the same: withhold federal funds until all states raise the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21.
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Most states consider your hotel room to be your “home” with respect to self defense situations. Some states go so far as to consider your car as your “home” in certain situations. This often gives one wider discretion on the use of lethal force in those venues.
Even in states where it is unlawful to posses a loaded handgun outside the home (or shooting range), there is often an exception for hotel occupancy.
It is quite common for hotel guests to be packing heat without managements’ knowledge. A 9mm bullet can travel through as many as seven (7) sheets of drywall. That’s a bullet leaving the shooter’s room (2 sheets), travelling through a second room (2 more sheets to exit the second room), through a third room (2 more sheets) before hitting you as you get up to pee in the middle of the night.
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Thanks. I did not know that.
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It’s a sobering thought.
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I like where you’re going here. Do what you can with what you have.
Let the SCOTUS once again take a right wing position that goes against public opinion.
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https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1530232343214047232?cxt=HHwWgICyka2NvbwqAAAA
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a growing number of lawmakers in Texas and beyond are calling for the minimum age to purchase assault rifles to be raised to 21 from 18.
Is there an actual classification of an assault rifle, one that may be tamed down from the military issue, as an assault rifle? I started looking, but being fairly unfamiliar with guns in general, I cannot yet find that distinction. In the law, is there any differentiation in a retail sense? What creates the difference, officially between that of an assault rifle versus conventional hunting rifle?
The reason I ask is looking at one popular sporting goods store, you know the one, they are everywhere and a destination beyond shopping. I did a search for AR-15 rifles. They pop up under guns with further categorization such as center fire. No where does it say assault rifle. They are sold and categorized just the same as that classic hunting rifle.
So before we put laws around their sale, shouldn’t there be a clear cut view of what is or is not an assault weapon? I suspect that not having a distinct classification is purposeful for the manufacturers and resellers. Keeping it all vague is convenient for making conversations mushy. Talk about a band on assault weapons can easily include conventional weapons, which of course will raise the ire of the gun loving crowd to begin with. If you can’t split them out, you either regulate them all or none. It is all a game to them.
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Let’s get serious about this. The AR-15, M-16, AK-47, an all other assault rifles are designed for one purpose, and one purpose only: TO KILL HUMAN BEINGS. When the projectiles fired from these weapons enter the body of a person, they literally tear up soft tissue, organs, and bones along a much larger path that their entry trajectory. They act like a meat grinder.
NO ONE should have access to these firearms other than trained military personnel and well-trained, uniformed police officers functioning in their official capacity.
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That’s a pretty big question, Greggie. Maybe because republicans have been blowing smoke up everyone’s ass about the 2nd amendment. Maybe because social media can connect people but it can also put additional pressure on people with mental health issues.
Whatever the reason is wouldn’t matter nearly as much if people who shouldn’t have guns weren’t able to get them as easily as you and your fellow assholes have made it.
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Some of the distinguishing characteristics are ability to hold a high capacity magazine, a pistol grip, telescoping stock, and the modular nature that allows heavy customization with accessories.
Here’s how the expired Federal assault rifle ban in 1994 defined them, and it included naming specific manufacturers because it’s a somewhat slippery thing to pin down:
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Can’t buy cigarettes either. Have to be 25 to rent a car.
But importantly they can vote at 18, and I hope all these walking out of school in protest of the shootings will do just that, plus register their families and friends. They can and must.
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That is interesting. Including the fact I couldn’t find that on my search. Oh well.
I noticed that there is no discussion on the ammunition, types and purpose.
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Isn’t that more a standard of the rental industry?
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Against public opinion for sure, but also against their prior rulings for doing the exact same thing when a Republican did it.
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Yes. I assume it’s based on data about liability.
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Yeah, but who rents assault rifles?
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Precedent is something you respect in your Senate hearing.
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