Reply to Buffalo Shooter

Orlando FL

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There are factual errors in your post: 1. Joe Biden is trying to stop the sale of military style assault weapons, so why would anyone hold him responsible for another mass killing? Trump spoke immediately after the massacre at the NRA convention in Houston, so people tend to associate him (and the NRA) with the atrocity, so I don’t believe you can say Trump or the Republicans had nothing to do with all this. 2. Concerning the Boulder mass shooting, it was not a hate crime. The shooter (Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa) was white, not black, so it was a white shooter who killed eight (not 10), white victims. The shooter was eventually ruled by the courts as mentally unfit for trial, so it really wasn’t a hate crime, but an example of mentally unfit persons obtaining weapons for mass murder. 3. Concerning Omar Thorton, the killer in Manchester Connecticut in 2010. The victims were white, he was black, and the motive was an employee disgruntled over getting fired. Omar Thorton was upset because he was being blamed for the theft of beer at the Hartford distributorship where he worked. Later the authorities convicted two other persons responsible for the theft. 4. By June of 2022, there have been around 150 mass killings, defined to be where more than 2 persons are killed, so for example in the Omar Thorton case, something that happened 12 years ago does tend to be forgotten. I disagree with your conclusions that the Democratic Party is responsible for the mass shootings, and for the record, I am a registered independent voter and former NRA member. I quit the NRA about 10 years ago when they began sending me hate and misinformation literature every month. It was obvious that over time they had become not a sportsman lobby, but a political PAC for the Republican National Committee. The NRA promotes the idea that everyone is entitled to a military assault weapon. If one studies the history of this issue, the only conclusion is that its a false assumption. I would like to ask you this. Do you think every citizen should be able to purchase a rocket propelled grenade launcher? I could argue that it’s actually a military assault weapon as well, and comparable to a rifle in construction, the only difference is the round it fires, and since the Constitution says we need armed militia’s, and if Canada or Mexico attacks, our militia’s should have comparable weapons, so why can’t NRA members have one? My point is that nobody really needs a AR-16, and the problem is that eventually a few unbalanced persons will obtain and use them to kill innocent persons, and arming everyone isn’t going to solve a National Defense issue.