Frank Staples
Sep 8, 2018 · 3 min read

Interesting, Kim, but you still don’t know anything about the subject! An AR 15 fires NO FASTER than my Colt .380 pistol or a Remington twelve gauge. And we certainly don’t need the CDC to do any research on anything outside of health issues…they did research under obama that showed that guns were used to prevent crime and then buried the research…that’s not the actions of an honest organization! It apparently was buried because it agreed with the FBI and other studies that had shown that guns are used many, many times more for good than for bad…and that certainly wasn’t what obama wanted! Next, what accessories make a firearm “more lethal”? I’m simply not aware of these things and I am well informed on firearms having had a military background and many years of firearms ownership. Then you wish to ban some firearms based upon some study that may or may not take the 2nd Amendment into consideration and you think that this might make citizens of the United States “safe” for some reason. Life is not safe, Kim…not at all and I speak from years of experience here having seen some of the most gruesome ways that people kill themselves. I’ve been a fireman for close to thirty years and I’ve seen everything from wrecks to suicides to murders to simply tragic accidents. I’ve seen that cellphones can be more deadly than firearms…I’ve seen whole families wiped out by some jerk looking at his or her cellphone rather than looking down the road. Some people question why we “need” these firearms as if we should have to justify our ownership of something. I reply back that firearms of all types are good for defending self and family and that’s certainly a good thing…but alcohol kills thousands upon thousands of people each year and serves NO USEFUL PURPOSE! So why can’t we simply ban all uses of alcohol and save all those lives? Why do we rant about guns and want to disarm the law abiding because that’s exactly what gun control does…it certainly doesn’t affect the thugs. Chicago is a haven for murder, each weekend, in a city that controls the law abiding slap out of their rights. In fact if we could eliminate the thugs in about ten cities in this country there really wouldn’t be any discussion about nasty firearms at all! Let me close by giving you some facts… AR 15’s are the most popular rifles in the United States today by far with millions of them in law abiding hands. They are semi-automatic medium power rifles and they have no magical powers. The people who hate them literally don’t realize that if you take the working parts and put them in a wooden stock instead of a black plastic stock they’d resemble somebody’s hunting rifle and act in exactly the same way. There are between 350 million and 600 million firearms in our country today and the vast majority of them are not used in any criminal manner. Law abiding gun owners comprise the largest army on the face of the planet and disarming them would be almost impossible and probably cost many lives on both sides. One final comment…we harp about approximately thirty thousand deaths each year with firearms but if you subtract suicides and lawful shootings then the accidental deaths and murders by thugs amount to literally nothing when we examine what kills people each year. Why do you want some kind of super gun control when firearms are used to protect wives and children?

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