Could the Republican Party ever be responsible for deaths?

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The original AR-15 became the M-16, which is used on the battle field. The current AR-15 is not used on the battle field and is not selective fire. It is not designed to be used on the battle field. It is a semi-automatic rifle.

What specific attribute makes them too dangerous for civilian ownership in your mind?

All ideologies and policies are responsible for deaths. For example, drug legalisation, undoubtedly a good thing on balance, might lead to a few people trying a drug they wouldn't have otherwise tried and dying as a result.

Is the 2nd amendment, and corresponding "defences" of it, responsible for deaths? Yes. No one can really dispute that. Is it responsible for more deaths than it prevents? Hard to say, but on balance, probably.

Wow, a bunch of people that know nothing about guns. An AR-15 doesn't even fire a high caliber round. It fires a 5.56 round. You guys do realize, well the ones complaining don't; there are countless rifles that fire WAY bigger calibers.

AR-15s are black and thus are "military rifles".

Who the f**k gives a f*****g s**t? Caliber isn't the issue.

Real mature. Do you act this mature when debating someone in real life?

Yes. And gun nuts love to get into the technical weeds in a debate, as if it makes them some kind of authority on gun policy.

And liberals like to use swear words when using an argument, as if they're effective in a debate; while at the same time being ignorant on the issue.

Actually, I do NOT condone somebody going off the deep end with an assault rifle and killing a bunch of people. The guns are not the issue here. What is at issue here is a fundemental flaw in our society where somebody would even consider such a thing in the first place. Conversely, you can ban anything that can be used by people to kill or otherwise harm other people, but until you try to find out what is causing people to consider such an option. Yes, our society is failing, but until you address the actual issues, not on the tools used to commit such atrocities, our society will continue to fail, it will cease to become a democracy, and become an authoritarian regime.



One of the reasons why we have a Second amendment is so we can safeguard against tyranny, whether by the invasion of another nation's forces, or from within. This worked from the days of the Brown Bess and the Kentucky Rifle, to the days of the Winchester Repeater, and the 1906 Springfield to the M1, (all of these, save for the Kentuck Rifle were designed for the battlefield, and all of them have seen battlefield action) and it works the same today.

Yes our government is corrupt, but don't blame the NRA, blame the special interest groups, PAC's, and lobbying. --While the NRA does engage in this, there are other much more odious groups that you should be paying attention to. Corporations, churches, and the continued fiasco of Wall Street, (remember back around 2008-9 at the height of the recession when our new president said that there would be no 'Golden Parachute' for Wall Street?) are what actually own our politicians.

If we ban AR-15's you will not be safe from them, as you might still get shot by a piece of crap with an M-16. Only in this scenario, the piece if crap may also be wearing a National Guard uniform.

One of our country's founding fathers said, 'Those who would trade Liberty for Safety deserve neither Liberty or Safety.'