Armed guards at banks are worthless

Redwood City CA

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There are no hero bank guards. They are props to help some people feel safe. To be a guard at a bank would not be a wise job for they are usually worthless when a machine gun, or other rapid fire, high magazine capable weapon, is used against their shaking 45 or 9mm. Trust me, you would be shaking. Ask any Marine drill Sargent. Banks have high security vaults. Banks have every trick in the book coded. A bank's biggest problem is the machine gun and explosives, the latter of which, is kept highly regulated. Our country has tried to counter the effects of the machine gun, and other types of rapid fire, large magazine capable guns. But for some criminal reason, they (machine guns) seem to keep busting up the place. And it's spreading rapidly. ................. In the 1920s and '30s, the U.S. was dealing with a different kind of gun violence epidemic: a massive increase in organized crime, fueled by Prohibition. Gangsters, like Al Capone, were making big money trafficking illegal alcohol. And a key weapon in their arsenal was the machine gun. "Those criminals from the mob took advantage of the rise of the portable machine gun, capable of firing multiple rounds of ammunition with the single pull of a trigger," says Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA's school of law and author of Gunfight: The Battle Over The Right to Bear Arms in America. The Menace Of Promiscuous Killings' Newsreels from the period chronicled the violence. In one from 1931, footage shot in New York shows walls along a city street pockmarked with bullet holes, and the children caught in the crossfire of gang warfare. "Here is Samuel Davino, only 5 years old, pointing to where he was shot in the leg by gangland's ruthless gunmen," the newsreel narrator says. "But poor little Samuel is more fortunate than Michael Vengali, also 5. Michael met death. And this casket will hold his tiny body, broken by machine gun bullets." Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the governor of New York at the time; it's the office he held just before becoming president. And the experience of having these events unfold on his watch stayed with him. When Roosevelt became president in 1933, his fellow Democrats controlled both the House and Senate by substantial margins, and there was already momentum to do something to rein in guns. For instance, Sen. Royal Copeland, a Democrat from New York, was promoting a federal ban on the sale of fully automatic guns. "We can never be free from the menace of promiscuous killings until the possession of firearms is everywhere restricted to persons of known character," Copeland said. "To this end I shall press my bill for passage through the United States Senate." The U.S. Has A Mass Shooting Epidemic, But No Government Database On Gun Violence U.S. The U.S. Has A Mass Shooting Epidemic, But No Government Database On Gun Violence There was talk in Washington of an outright ban on fully automatic weapons. But Roosevelt was wary of that — not because of the Second Amendment, but because of the Interstate Commerce Clause. The Supreme Court had already imposed strict limits on the ability of Congress to regulate commerce. Instead, Roosevelt backed a tax and registration scheme known as the National Firearms Act, which the president signed into law in 1934. It applied to short-barrel shotguns and rifles, and to fully automatic weapons like machine guns. And it was supported by the National Rifle Association. How The National Firearms Act Of 1934 Worked..........Google it.