I've shot an AR-15, and frankly, it feels like a toy, is too easy, is too powerful, deceivingly so

[CreekDog]

This was back in the 1990's, one of the times we would go target shooting in Arizona. We'd use friends weapons, and that AR-15 belonged to my friend's dad (who wasn't with us).

I just remember how the AR-15 was quiet, easy to fire, had little kick, it was just too easy, too mild to hold the power that it did.

Killing should not be that easy, should not be that technologically-refined.

To me, the advances of weapons have made them easier to use, more pleasant to use and seemingly, makes them seem less dangerous...

But they are more dangerous than ever.

And at the same time, we have this combination of a minority of Americans (demographically white and middle aged) arming themselves and of the primary reasons I want to call attention to, it's these that bother and concern me:

1) as a hobby, because, in a way, these are toys (or they are wrongly treated as such)
2) as a means to protect their rights, as if the demographics of the mass gun owner, white, male, and middle aged is ever going to stand up for my rights --they vote against my rights all the time. why would they shoot for them?

[leveymg]

1. You hit it on 2): It's all about property & declining white American middleclass. No future.

The politics of the same demographic are just as random, suicidal and senseless as their shootings seem to be. They ultimately end up destroying themselves.

[Jamastiene]

2. It wouldn't solve possible crimes committed with older guns, but

I still like my electronic GPS tied directly to the function of the gun in all new guns manufactured idea. That GPS would alert police if anyone got within x distance from a school or mall or government building and disable the function of the gun while in those areas. Of course, the police would have to have a modified version, but that could be tightly controlled by the government. It would not help with all of the guns already in existence though. I can't figure out what to do about those, but I'm trying to think.