http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/19/national-review-writer-blames-newtown-on-feminine-passivity Comments On: <em>National Review</em> Writer Blames Newtown Massacre on Feminine Passivity by Eli Sanders en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Someone please tell me: Is there anything that defines and embodies "male aggression" more than a male rather aggressively brandishing a muderous weapon?

Male aggression is what has been behind 61 out of the last 62 mass shootings in the country, ie only ONE female has been the shooter out of the last 62 times we have gone thru this. (This despite the fact that a whopping 35% of gun owners are women.) Imagine if it was the reverse -imagine the conversation we'd be having in this country if 61 out of the last 62 mass shootings were perpetrated by women, and not men. Of COURSE everyone would be saying - you'd be nuts not to - "My god, what in the hell is up with our women? Why are they like this? We have to examine this - we have to do something about the way we are raising and socializing our girls." And yet ... is anyone asking these same questions about modern day males? Is this the focus at all? Nope. The conversation has been almost entirely about gun control and mental illness.

Our refusal to acknowledge or somehow even recognize this, and the resulting complete lack of discussion about what is up with today's boys and men - what we are doing so very wrong as a culture when it comes to them - is only going to serve to guarantee more mass shootings.


Posted by Velvetbabe]]> Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:26:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Aurora Erratic]]> Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:09:58 -0800 The Stranger
You do realize how fucking ridiculous that sounds, right?
Posted by Backyard Bombardier]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:29:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:54:35 -0800 The Stranger
There will always be a manufacturer or a person that will find out how to skirt the law on a technicality.

A ban can only have a real effect if it addresses the real problem: high capacity semi-automatics, and the prevalence of cheap handguns. Ban semi-automatics entirely (especially in cities), and the problem will slowly go away.

But good luck with this congress!
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:35:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sissoucat]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:01:39 -0800 The Stranger Use the terms that have already been defined and use them correctly.
Otherwise, you end up with something like the last "ban" which did nothing to change the functionality of firing bullets.

Strangely enough, there seem to be a lot of SLOG readers who are actively opposed to learning anything on the subject.
Remember, the knowledge itself cannot hurt you.
It might even help.

Example: make the new ban require magazines with smaller dimensions so that the existing 30 round magazines cannot fit in the magazine well of the new "ban friendly" guns. Or larger so that they don't lock correctly. Or with other flanges.
But that suggestion could only come from someone who understands the differences between guns and how guns work.
Fear will not help you write good legislation.
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:53:50 -0800 The Stranger
"there aren't that many full-auto rifles in circulation."

Which was precisely the point of the person you were originally replying too. Anyone who refers to the guns that Lanza was carrying as automatics, and there are plenty, journalists included, are either lying or don't know what they're talking about.


Posted by GermanSausage]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:49:36 -0800 The Stranger is a submachine gun, as is a Thompson. Are we failing to communicate?

Once again, the Colt 1911A1 pistol is called "an automatic," an auto-loading shotgun is correctly referred to as "an automatic shotgun," even thought they're both semi-auto. There aren't that many full-auto rifles in circulation, as you correctly noted, so unless someone is described with a "submachine gun," or some specific reference is made to "full-auto" or "burst mode," please feel free to assume that we're all talking about auto-loaders/semi-automatics, okay?
Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:26:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:53:16 -0800 The Stranger
Seriously; it's like if in a discussion on drunk-driving laws someone started saying, "Well, you clearly don't really understand the issues if you don't know the difference between the 1975 Chevy Impala and the 1976 model, which incorporated several key changes in the transmission and carburator."
Posted by Backyard Bombardier]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:45:11 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.gunsamerica.com/915865694/KAH…
Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:56:01 -0800 The Stranger
The sub in sub-machine guns has nothing to do with semi in semi-automatics. It refers to their size, not their rate of fire. And the reason you don't hear about Thompson submachine guns being used by criminals any more is because they were fully automatic, and have thus been illegal for many, many decades now.

Maybe gun control legislation would be a lot more further advanced by now if the people who claimed to care about it actually took a modest effort to actually learn what it is they're talking about.
Posted by GermanSausage]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:34:44 -0800 The Stranger
Who owns the bulk of the munitions (rifles and firearms) industry)?

Who profits most from the sale of rifles and pistols?

And why don't people address these questions?
Posted by sgt_doom]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:33:59 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Rob in Baltimore]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:34:57 -0800 The Stranger
http://wonkette.com/493495/plucky-girl-c…
Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:48:20 -0800 The Stranger
In common American English usage, semi-automatic/auto-loading pistols and shotguns are also correctly referred to as "automatics" even though they only fire one shot at a time. Considering the rarity of machine pistols, and the history of civilian guns, only military-style rifles ever really need to be clarified. Fully-auto rifles are also called "submachine guns," a term that has become less common in the newspapers since "The Mob" stopped gunning each other down with "Tommy Guns" in public, but is still the correct term to unambiguously describe them.

Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:43:45 -0800 The Stranger
As you can tell, I am quite a manly man. I don't need some pansy-ass automatic weapon though.
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:30:17 -0800 The Stranger If he had carried a bunch of speed loaders everything he did could have been done with a revolver. Of course using a 6 shot pistol to do all the murders would have taken more work due to the fact of having to do more reloads but it still could have been done and not taken much (if any) more time to do. Possibly less time since the human body (even a small child) can take more hits from a high speed round that simply passes thru if it doesn't hit anything on the instant critical list than from a much slower pistol round that takes its time and does more actual damage.

Oh and @5... Since the Bushmaster he used was not a Gatling type multi-barreled machine gun then it didn't even have anywhere close to the cyclic rate required to fire 200 rounds in 10 seconds. And I don't see anything on the Bushmaster website about them even making Gatling type weapons. 600 rounds per minute is pretty much the limit on single barrel cyclic rates and most are somewhat below that as a safety precaution.
Posted by Romial]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:13:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mubhappy]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:43:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sarah70]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:42:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:23:06 -0800 The Stranger
Fucking "conservatives" my ass.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:14:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by stirwise]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:11:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by stirwise]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:10:35 -0800 The Stranger