Are pools and ladders far behind?
They are correctly referred to as knee-jerk when they exploit a tragedy as an opportunity to advance their agenda, especially when their agenda would not have prevented the tragedy and they are merely taking advantage of the publicity.
That’s bullshit. There was a Federal assault weapons ban fairly recently. You are being disingenuous by pretending that gun owners’ fears of bans, etc. are irrational. Even if not for that, “X hasn’t happened yet, thus you’re not justified worrying about X” is quite the fallacy, especially in the context of a discussion about the possibility of X occurring!
So why the focus on “assault weapons”?
Probably because they, or weapons the public mind classifies as “assault weapons” anyway, have been used in several high-profile massacres. But I think handguns are the main problem. No cite, but I’m sure the number of deaths each year from handgun-shots is much larger than that from all other classes of firearms put together.
You say “exploiting” and I say “laying bare for the masses precisely what they’ve been talking about for years.”
What guns and/or ammo have you, or any “gun-enthusiast,” been preventing from procuring as a result of any of the endless mass-shootings we’ve suffered in this country? This shit happens on an average of twice a year for the last few decades, and every time, we hear from those rare citizens who only feel complete with a gun in their hands, about how horrible it’s going to be when the government comes for their weapons.
Now, when, exactly, was the last time the government came for their guns again? Knee-jerk - by definition. When twenty children get slaughtered, their first and only debate point (outside of a perfunctory “of course it’s a tragedy” statements) is that it’s going to be more difficult to add another AR-15 to their collection.
You aren’t fooling anybody.
When somebody warns that something’s going to happen (more mass-shootings) – and it happens … when that person speaks up, it is not knee-jerk.
When somebody warns that something’s going to happen (all guns are going to be confiscated) … and it never does happen … when that person speaks up incessantly after every mass-shooting that occurs, that is knee-jerk.
I’ve heard you can kill a lot of people with a pressure cooker, but hey here’s a thought. How about you guys try and institute a law banning the manufacture and sale of ALL guns in this country. Heck, you should even try confiscating those in current circulation. Maybe try to get Biden and Hillary to run on that platform in 2016. See where that gets you. I hope you try, really. 
That’s all true, you guys should try to ban handguns at least. Let me know how that works out. Let me know first so I can buy more stock in Smith & Wesson.
If the Kyrgyzstanian douche-bags had decided to buy a few AR-15’s, and a Glock or two, instead of a Walmart special pressure cooker, do you think they may have been able to gank more or less than three people there?
.22 long rifle is still sold out across the country, as is 9mm last time I checked. .40, .45, .223, and .308 have only been back in stock for a few months.
How many would they have got if the put their bomb in a kindergarden? They had guns by the way.
Anyway, try to outlaw AR15s again, and Glocks too. Send Obama a letter.
Yeah? You got any of that shit? How difficult was it to get, Rambo?
I got all that shit, but I’m really low on .22s. Enough I shot almost all centerfire this last year.
Gee whiz. What a terrible burden for you. Those Sandy Hook parents should feel ashamed for your plight. It’s not like they can’t just make more children, right?
It’s not their fault Jack.
The great thing about Alex jones is he thinks everything is a false flag. Regardless of who is in the White House.
I’m not even sure what that means, so I can only conclude that it is the coda to your Colbertesque “gun-nut” schtick.
It seems like he’s saying the Sandy Hook parents have no responsibility or blame or otherwise anything they should feel ashamed for, per your suggestion.
Because of knee-jerk jerks who stocked up because of their fantasy that their guns were going to be taken away. Wait–that doesn’t follow because Nancy Pelosi would take their ammo, too. How about so they could fight off Pelosi and Jim Brady when they came to take their guns? Doesn’t seem fair because they are both old and he’s in a wheelchair for some reason.
I don’t know why there has been a run on ammunition. I know that gun owners are too smart to fall for panic buying based on a fantasy, thus raising demand and lowering supply so the manufacturers could have a year-long party raising prices and raising the floor price so gun guys won’t bat an eye when prices never get down to where they once were. Far too smart for that.
Did you really miss the dripping sarcasm in my post? I thought only **Kable **was that immune to rhetoric.
Nope. I don’t think Kable missed it either, he seems like he was just being flippant in response to your sarcasm.