They say the children are our future, which almost certainly has to be a scare tactic. If those insufferable kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL are our future we are all doomed. These students have formed a gun control group called The Student Gun Violence Summit and they are demanding, among other things, a ban on “velocity rounds.” What exactly are those and why are they a problem? Nobody knows, but damn it, these kids want ‘em gone and they want ‘em gone now.
The Student Gun Violence Summit is aligned with every bullshit gun control group in the country including Moms Demand Action, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, and The Brady Campaign. This student led group came up with what they call a Students Bill of Rights, which is actually a list of demands. These demands would do nothing to make anyone safer, but that’s kind of how gun control works.
#10 on this list is particularly stupid:
Require all gun dealers, sellers and owners to report stolen guns; prohibit the sale under the National Firearms Act (NFA) of semi-automatic military style weapons that fire velocity rounds, bump stocks and other accessories that alter the original firing capacity of a firearm.
Velocity rounds? That’s a new one to me. Velocity is how fast something goes or simply another word for speed. Every round, from .17 HMR to 50 BMG, has velocity when fired. Some rounds are faster than others, but they all have speed. Is this just some typical liberal gun ignorance or do these students want to ban every firearm that fires a round with velocity? And BTW, that would include every firearm.
But there is more wrong with this gun control word salad. They say they want to ban semiautomatic weapons under the National Firearms Act, but that’s not even what the NFA does. The NFA regulates and taxes the manufacture and transfer of certain classes of weapons, including machine guns and short-barreled rifles and shotguns as well as suppressors. It doesn’t ban these things and it sure as shit doesn’t allow for the banning of all semi-automatic weapons.
“Military style” isn’t any kind of a real classification for firearms. This is a meaningless term made up by gun-hating liberals. A gun is either suitable for use in the military or it isn’t and the semi-automatic rifles available to the public are definitely not acceptable combat weapons.
Also, bump stocks don’t alter the firing capacity of a firearm, they alter the firing rate. This part is also very problematic because this group of students would like to ban any accessory that alters the firing capacity of a firearm. A detachable magazine alters the firing capacity of a firearm, so what they are really saying is they want to ban any weapon that accepts a detachable magazine, which is probably about 90% of all firearms sold in the US.
There’s a lot to unf*ck with this demand, but the bottom line is that the Student Gun Violence Summit wants a complete ban on all firearms that have detachable magazines and/or fire rounds that have velocity. That is to say they want every single firearm banned. Maybe these future leaders think the total disarmament of the American people is reasonable, but 140 million gun owners and the 2nd Amendment disagree.
