If there was a referendum to ban AR-15’s, how would you vote?

SimplyTracie · 2019-09-13T22:10:54-04:00

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I’d vote for banning the AR-15

I’d vote against banning the AR-15

I just don’t care one way or the other

STFU Tracie. Jeez

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DallasCowboysFan · 61-69, M

The AR-15 is only a weapon style. It has a plastic stock and it looks scary. If it has a wooden stock it looks traditional, but it is the same weapon. People should be more concerned with the fact that 90% of the shooters are on mood altering drugs like Prozac, Albien, Zoloft etc... And many of the shooters were on a no-buy list but they were not tripped when they bought a gun.

SimplyTracie · 26-30, F

@DallasCowboysFan So it’s a flaw in the criminal background check system.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@DallasCowboysFan

People should be more concerned with the fact that 90% of the shooters are on mood altering drugs like Prozac, Albien, Zoloft etc...

Is this actually true though?

And many of the shooters were on a no-buy list but they were not tripped when they bought a gun.

Actually the vast majority weren't.

The AR-15 is only a weapon style. It has a plastic stock and it looks scary. If it has a wooden stock it looks traditional, but it is the same weapon.

This is true, "assault weapon" bans are usually mostly cosmetic and arbitrary.

Bayonet attachment 🙄

DallasCowboysFan · 61-69, M

@SimplyTracie Not always, but shooters have fallen through the cracks. I don't think there is a single reason responsible for the shooters. But, I do believe that the majority had been on mood altering drugs. I don't always think it was mental illness, those drugs alter your way of thinking. I wonder how many actually needed the drugs in the first place? What did the medical profession do 50, 75 years ago when someone was diagnosed with depression etc. and they did not have any magic pills to give them? Perhaps that is what we should be doing. Or, start holding doctors and the pharmaceutical industry responsible for their behavior as well.

DallasCowboysFan · 61-69, M

@QuixoticSoul I saw an article and they reviewed shooters and it was something like 12/14 had been on drugs some time during their life and many were current users. Sometimes the drugs alter your thinking and actually become addictive.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@DallasCowboysFan The majority? Honestly I'm looking into this and it seems like a complete myth.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@DallasCowboysFan

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308220517_Psychiatric_Medications_and_School_Shootings

School shooters, at least, seem to be less likely to be on anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds than the average person 🤷‍♂️

And the rise of such prescriptions also coincides with a historic drop in overall homocide rates, one would think you'd see the opposite if psych meds were to blame.