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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2019 17:42:07 GMT
AP..
”The sound of a balloon popping triggered a massive police response and shoppers' panicked flight from a Florida mall, authorities now say.”
“Police: Popped balloon led to evacuation of Florida mall”
“BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Police say a popped balloon was what prompted erroneous reports of an active shooter at a Florida mall, triggering an evacuation of shoppers and massive police response.
The Boca Raton Police Department said in a statement Tuesday that surveillance video shows a janitor popped the balloon in the food court of the Town Center mall on Sunday after it got tangled in his pushcart. Investigators say a popped balloon was recovered at the site.
Video showed shoppers reacting immediately to the popping sound and then hurrying to flee the mall.
Police searched the mall extensively but found no evidence of a shooter. One man suffered a head injury when he collided with a door while attempting to evacuate. The man, who wasn’t identified, was treated at a local hospital.”
And who do we have to thank for this becoming a common occurrence? Those with their misguided ideas on how to protect the 2nd amendment. Congratulations to those individuals because now you have Americans running for their lives at any loud noise in a public place. Way to go USA!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2019 19:35:41 GMT
This guy wrote twitter thread on why an assault weapons buy back is “bad politics”.
If this country comes to its senses and once again bans all assault weapons and it absolutely makes no sense to “grandfather in” keeping assault weapons if you own one prior to the ban taking effect. I read someplace there are currently 6M assault style weapons out there. If that number is correct that is an awful lot of banned weapons to leave out there, especially since the goal is to get these weapons off the street. So I disagree with his assessment.
As a country I think we have a decision to make on how much we are going to let guns change the way we live out lives.
Should it be normal that people run when they hear a loud noise in a public place? Should it be normal that in our schools besides our children having fire drills or earthquake drills they now have “how to hide from a shooter” drills?
The impact of guns is now spreading to all Americans and not just the dead and their families. The reality is not everyone should own a gun and not every type of gun manufactured should be legally on our streets.
At what point is enough?
Matt Bennett..
“1/Let’s talk about mandatory assault weapons buybacks. I understand the sentiment – AWs are awful and should be banned. But a mandatory buyback in America isn’t actually feasible—and it’s very bad politics. Here’s why. THREAD”
2/Let’s start with the substance. There is no registry of guns or gun owners – we have no idea how many AWs are out there or who owns them.
3/What we know is that there are a LOT of them. There are probably tens of millions of AW in private hands. By one estimate, there are 5 million AR-15s in peoples’ homes. That’s just one, albeit the most popular, AW.
4/The NRA and its allies in Congress have so weakened our law enforcement capabilities that we can’t even get our hands on the small # of guns we are already supposed to be buying back.
5/Right now, ATF is supposed to collect guns from people who failed background checks but got the firearm anyway under a “default proceed” (if the check takes too long, the sale goes through). But for the most part, they don’t.
6/Thanks to the NRA/GOP, ATF is so understaffed that they can’t even handle getting back the guns from felons who just bought them when we know exactly where they are. And the default proceed numbers are tiny by comparison to AW ownership.
7/What about the politics? Those couldn’t be worse. Because let’s face it, if it’s mandatory that a gun is turned over to the government, that is confiscation. That is not “an NRA talking point” – that is fact.
8/Gun confiscation is precisely the wrong ground for the gun violence prevention movement to be fighting on. We are WINNING the gun debate, for the first time in 30 years.
9/Voters are rightly scared and angry about gun violence. They are demanding action. And we have a bunch of big, robust, and smart GVP groups leading the charge.
10/We CAN make background checks universal. We CAN get federal law behind Extreme Risk Protective Orders. If we work harder than ever and win some big elections, we could even be able to ban AWs and high-capacity magazines. These steps would save lives.
11/With the @nra on its heels and the public behind us, all of this is possible. And the political leaders who support it will be rewarded.
12/But we are in danger of forfeiting those gains if we change the subject. If we go beyond what we know will work and try to do things that strike voters (and an increasingly hostile Supreme Court) as too far, we will lose. And the NRA will win.
13/This is not about timidity or caution, this is about reality and facts. To support GVP, we should build on the momentum and pass common sense gun laws that supermajorities of Americans support—and stop the NRA’s all-time favorite President from winning a second term. END
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