I HATE GUNS!!! Part 2

May 31, 2022

July 17, 2022, Update: I found this astonishing statement in support of my belief about the Uvalde gunman along with other mortifying failures about the police response:

“It explains how the gunman, who investigators believe had never fired a gun before May 24 …”

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Update: After posting this, I decided that I would boldface the video time-links.

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Why are we being held hostage by 10% of the voters? (I still cannot answer my question.)

I am not a politician who has free, not in-prison, violent believing people as "supporters".

In a great PBS interview, Heather Cox Richardson is asked about gun rights and abortion. She says we are up against "image", not "logic”. She says we have Luke Skywalker, in 1977, to thank for seeding our current gun problems. (I was born in 1976.)

However, the substance of the "cowboy" image are "morticians who can provide facial reconstruction services for the families.”

While our Founding Fathers would be mortified by the absolute destruction of the AR-15, which is demonstrated in this CBS 60 Minutes video, Why do mass shooters choose the AR-15 style rifle?, the Supreme Court justices are A-OK with gun rights (nice fence protection from peaceful Roe v Wade Alito decision protests), no matter the human destruction.

Ryan Busse, "a former firearms executive", said in an interview, How the AR-15 conquered America, as revealed by an industry insider:

"Sargent: Gun manufacturers could market this stuff directly to a whole generation of people who were living in a society transformed by the Iraq and Afghan wars.

Busse: Then, as it got ever more competitive, they’d get the guns into video games. Get the guns into movies. Call the guns ever-more-offensive names. There’s an AR-15 called the “Urban Super Sniper.” How much more suggestive can you get than that?"

I am not a first-person shooter video game player, so I am stuck on the fact that an 18-year-old can buy an AR-15 without a license / permit in Texas. The video games require more strategy than just pulling the trigger. I may be wrong, but I think the 18-year-old Buffalo and Uvalde shooters had prior physical experience handling the long gun.

The video game is not going to give the gunmen real-world shooting experience

(In research for the above paragraph, after I Googled, "AR-15 recoil", I watched part of this video only to learn that the "heavier" version has little "recoil". Next, I Googled, "how realistic are first person shooter games", only to discover that video games are more realistic than I was aware of according to, Top 9 Most Realistic FPS Games (2021).)

I believe that people associated with the gunmen should be investigated and prosecuted for giving access / training to the then younger than 18 gunmen if they commit crimes.

I HATE GUNS!!!