Gun control
I think that the Gun control thread got lost when the old politics thread got moved.
1 The rest of the world looks at the US policy with slack jawed astonishment.
2. “Guns don’t kill people , people do” is identical to “Nuclear weapons don’t kill people, people do”
3. Using the idea that carrying guns can prevent the government oppressing you seems to ignore the fact that the US government controls the most effective killing machine in history
So when I hear we can’t ban guns for hunter purpose , hopefully they don’t hunt with those guns huh ?
If those guns are legal for civilians I just don’t get it .
In full auto, these would have to be a certain age to be legal in the US if we we assume they were originally full auto. If they were converted, that would usually be illegal. But that's really a difference that does not really matter much. If we assume a civilian firing in full auto without much training, then he is less dangerous than if he was firing in semi-automatic mode as the latter would force him to shoot in a more controlled manner and preserve his ammunition better.
In the movie here these are not really portrayed as untrained civilians. They are moving like soldiers and firing like soldiers. They use a basic "
" tactic of the kind soldiers would use and they reload well. The actors more than likely had a military instructor. It's not really something you'd expect too many criminals to do, so the clip is more "military tactic vs police tactic" than illustrative of your garden variety criminal.
But yes, a person with a long gun is pretty much always more dangerous than someone with a handgun. A handgun takes a lot of practice and maintenance of your skill to be precise with even at fairly short ranges like 10m-20m, while with a long gun you can precise out to 100-200 yards with only basic training.
If you can put the cat back in the bag with the amount of weapons currently in circulation in the US is an open question. I'm guessing it would take at least a generation, and that time-frame in itself would probably hinge on broad bipartisan support and support in the populace.
I've seen a documentary on the making of Heat and they indeed underwent extensive training with military instructors.
Mann says, “I wanted everybody really well-trained so that they felt that they could actually do what the characters in this film do.” Ex-Special Air Service sergeant Andy McNab and ex-Special Forces instructor Mick Gould developed a three-month plan for the actors.
just imagine if they had keanu
