<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">I got my first .22 when I was eight. My nine year-old grandson is too impulsive and hyperactive to even take out for target practice. When I tell him "don't do that" he often doesn't listen. I was much more inhibited. As I mentioned recently at a vFriam meeting, he constantly plays first-person shooter games in which he slaughters lots of people. I don't think he would confuse reality with gameland but he's too frenetic. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">People who justify AR-15 ownership by invoking home defense are incorrect, I think. A better choice is a short semi-automatic 12 gauge shotgun . It poses a much smaller threat to your neighbors and you don't have to aim accurately. You will likely kill the home-invader, however.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 5:10 PM Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm" target="_blank">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Once upon a time, Regan era if I remember right, there was an NRA sponsored legislation to require a gun license ala a driver's license. It foundered and was abandoned for multiple reasons, among them: 1) The test, including a firing range component, was to be devised devised and administered by the NRA; 2) debate over the proper age for obtaining a license — ranged from 6 to 21; 3) scope of license, i.e did you need special endorsements for different types of gun (analogous to needing a CDL to drive semis or single/multi engine airplanes; and 4) inter-state reciprocity.<br>
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, at 9:52 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:<br>
> Hm. If you have to pull the trigger for each round (no bump fire), I <br>
> can see maybe doubling my rate with the Beretta, maybe even up to 50 <br>
> rounds. But 240? I'd be amazed. Hell, I'd do well just to flex my index <br>
> finger that many times, that fast, with nothing in my hand. Try it! I <br>
> got to 250 flexes, but my hand was cramping. For a trained and fit <br>
> soldier in their 20s or 30s, maybe.<br>
> <br>
> Regardless, your point's well taken. Even at 100 rpm, that's a lot more <br>
> inter-person damage than my little gun could do. And given that most <br>
> people are incompetent (or don't really, deep down, want to kill <br>
> anyone), lowering the fire rate may have some impact. But it still <br>
> seems like such a weak gesture, more like a campaign slogan than an <br>
> effective way to lower deaths by gun (which are dominated by suicides <br>
> anyway - a glacially slow revolver works well enough for suicide).<br>
> <br>
> Waiting periods and mandatory background checks (for every sale) seem <br>
> to have so much more bite. I'd like to see a licensing process. You <br>
> have to take a test to drive, why not require competence tests for gun <br>
> ownership?<br>
> <br>
> On 3/28/21 2:41 PM, Prof David West wrote:<br>
> > Granting all you say, there is one other aspect — rate of discharge. You can empty your Beretta in the time it takes my to fire 3-4 shots from my 357 revolver. A legal AR can probably discharge a full 250 round mega-clip in the time it takes you to empty, reload, and empty your Beretta. An illegal, full-auto, AR can get close to a single instance of your pistol being emptied.<br>
> > <br>
> > Mr Macho would eschew most long guns for the same reason as most pistols — too slow to fill the air with lead. Also does not need to worry about skill. In WWII the ration of bullets to causalities was 25,000/1. Because of closed and highly compacted spaces your average mass shooter does better 200-500/1 but still relies on luck rather than skill.<br>
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> > Assassins (mob hit men, etc) prefer a 22 and achieve pretty much a 1/1 ratio. Effectiveness, not posturing, is what matters to them.<br>
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