Conservative New Orleans court ruling for people between 18 and 21 comes amid major shifts in firearm legal landscape

  • Stern
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    41 month ago

    Gotta imagine there’d be a lot less mass murders at school if we taught the kiddos to assume the Testudo in response to one crazy with a sword.

    • @Arbiter
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      41 month ago

      I mean, maybe we should address the root cause rather than just assume school murders will always happen.

      • @shalafi
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        31 month ago

        They didn’t used to happen. And US civilians have been able to purchase the AR-15 since the 60s. Then Columbine happened.

        • @kerrigan778
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          They were able to purchase guns that were extremely functionally similar to the AR-15 since the end of WW2 in the form of the M1 carbine. They were cheaply available as surplus for quite awhile. The difference between the two is mostly in weight and ability to penetrate armor and barriers effectively