As ever, companies will adapt or die. That has been a theme as silencers have grown in popularity even without regulatory changes (remember AAC?), and any changes to the law will accelerate the same dynamic.
“One day it just hit me — I’m a young woman out running at 4 a.m. with nothing to protect myself,” she says. “It’s a less lethal option and it will give you a chance to get away if need be.”
“This is not about freedom. It’s about greed. And it’s proof – again – that these politicians don’t care about protecting America. They care about protecting the gun industry’s bottom line.”
The way we’ve thought about gun violence has made the politics of progress nearly impossible. The even bigger problem is we’ve been thinking about gun violence all wrong.
“I really want to ask, who asked for this? Was it the assassin lobby?”
In pre-election surveys, women and voters of color were more likely than men and White respondents to view voting as unsafe and to say they were taking precautions as a result.
During the public comment period, MacIntosh urged commissioners to make a statement opposing anti-government extremists, a few weeks after the U.S. Capitol riot. That’s when Clous left the screen and returned with a rifle.
Leading outlets have referred to a mass-shooting “epidemic,” particularly when covering the kind of massacres that rock the nation. The truth is these events are exceedingly rare.
“I am flabbergasted. After all the horrifying shit that we’ve seen so far in Trump 2.0, she still doesn’t think civilians should be able to own ar-style rifles. Doesn’t care about the fact that they are no more or less dangerous than something like a mini-14.”
