Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Man destroys the AR-15 rifle he’s owned for over 30 years after Florida school shooting | ABC News" video.

  1. +tasnibur rahman how is he responsible? He just committed a felony on camera and posted it online. It's illegal to shorten a barrel without a tax stamp.
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  2. +cubismo85 if he had any brain cells he would realize he posted a video of himself illegally shortening a rifle barrel.
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  3. How is he a man? For committing a felony on camera and posting it online? That's not being a man, that's being stupid.
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  4. pandorachild how am I being stupid for pointing out you're applauding a criminal who has no regard for the law and who did nothing to prevent any deaths? How is that unreasonable?
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  5. How is destroying one weapon a solution? Particularly a gun that wouldn't kill anyone as long as it stayed in his hands? You really shouldn't applaud people for slacktivism or doing symbolic gestures that do not acomplish anything. You're only applauding mediocrity.
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  6. pandorachild I am presenting questions you don't answer, not trying to prove anything. Try again.
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  7. +Richard Ascensio lmao so despite the danger of being killed by objects other than rifles is greater, it doesn't count because it wasn't in a mass murder. lmao and you people claim to care about lives, when you clearly don't. Only about guns.
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  8. +MrSpinel can you give us a concise explanation of what makes an AR-15 different from other rifles?
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  9. It does nothing at the macro level. Others following suit? Only if the others are so brain dead they actually think owning a weapon is going to influence the number of massacres, again not really the type of people who would actually take the gun and start shooting people. Either way the rifles are sold faster than they're destroyed by virtue signaling men with a mid-life crisis. "not buying semi automatics anymore" are you fucking kidding? No, are you actually fucking kidding me? Semi-automatics are in common use in almost every country. Even in the UK, which is known for not allowing semi-auto rifles, allows semi-auto shotguns (which are very destructive weapons at close range). The vast majority of countries allows semi-auto rifles and semi-auto handguns.
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  10. +0imon "the bullet won't even spring" wow that's some great insight into how firearms work. Shortening the barrel is still a crime without a permit from the ATF.
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  11. +Arsenal Pro Audio "they are the primary weapon of choice for school shootings due to high yield and high capacity" any rifle with detachable magazine can have a "high capacity" magazine made for it. The reason AR15s are so used is because the media glamorized them. Also what the fuck is the yield of a firearm? This isn't a nuclear weapon.
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  12. +EmmaWhispers yeah but he lived in his mother's house. He didn't break in. He killed his mother to get the keys to the safe. Unless the dude is sharing a home with a psychopath or he leaves guns outside a safe, he didn't prevent shit. The chances of his house being robbed and his safe broken into are infinitesimal. Not to mention he committed a crime by shortening his rifle barrel under 16".
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  13. +Cooper Huttley he does care about his firearm - the lower receiver is the serialized part, the actual "firearm". He can buy a barrel and gas tube for cheap, online, and order it to his door because only the lower is the firearm. If he didn't care, he would have torch cut the lower per ATF guidelines. His actions in the video did not result in the destruction of a firearm (it would still work, just not cycle), just the manufacture of a SBR which is illegal.
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  14. +ARKEF1E lol what does that article prove? That gun laws don't stop criminals from smuggling weapons? There's 850 million guns in worldwide circulation. You think that if state lines don't stop criminals, borders will? Drugs come through the border all the time. You think guns will be stopped?
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  15. Yeah it is. AR-15s were sold in various forms. In the pre-ban years that's what an AR-15 looked like, now it's considered "retro".
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  16. +slarti bartfast he still manufactured a SBR and the receiver needs to be torch cut into three pieces if I'm not mistaken. Sawing it won't cut it, pun intended.
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  17. Yeah but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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  18. +young prodigy but he still needs a new gas tube, a gas block and to drill a new gas port in the barrel before it becomes semi-auto again.
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  19. +The radical Teddy kills look can you give some credentials? Because we get a lot of people who don't know anything about guns telling us what guns will do the job or won't. Do you have any tactical/law enforcement/military background or you're just basing your opinions off what the media says?
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  20. +Kevin Kennedy to legally dispose of a gun you need to cut it with a torch in two places and make sure it melts away a quarter inch of material on every cut to make sure it can't be easily re-welded back into a gun. Now ignoring the legal aspect, the firearm is the lower receiver. That's the serialized part you need to destroy. Cutting the barrel just shortens it. The short barrel can be re-profiled and drilled with a new gas port, the gas block reinstalled and the gas tube replaced and it will function fire. As it stood in the video, it would be capable of firing single shots, it would be just the gas system that wouldn't work. By the legal standard, and common sense, it was still a functioning firearm if the lower is intact and it can fire.
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  21. +DC S it's not an assault rifle, though. And a responsible gun owner would know that cutting off a barrel without a permit from the ATF makes him a felon.
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  22. Koekenzopie and yet the "rest of the world" issues carry permits to celebrities, the elite, those with connections, bodyguards, etc. So civilized... They tell you that you don't need one while surrounded by meatheads packing heat. Some animals are more equal than others.
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  23. "In my country and the rest of Western Europe the celebrities can walk around safely" yet most legislation in most countries allow carry permits for important people. If they walk around safely why the bodyguards? Oh wait, the armed bodyguards make them safe. I'm from the Western Europe and people discovered that the standard for issuing carry permits wasn't that high and the number of licenses was increasing at the rate of 4 thousand per year so they made it harder to them them a few years ago. But armored truck security/drivers, taxmen, etc people who deal with money/have high risk jobs (like bodyguards) can get the permit. Their problem was that the common people were getting permits too, a restaurant owner could argue he needed a permit. England never had a problem with guns, they passed gun laws for fear of a revolution after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, despite the extremely low gun murder numbers. "We don't want people shooting at our [....] concerts [...]" You mean like in France?
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  24. "there are no body guards for the Jimmy Kimmels from my coutry" to be honest I doubt America's Jimmy Kimmels have bodyguards either. But the Kardashians definitely have. Didn't Kanye and Kim have armed bodyguards when they got "robbed" in France? "Btw how many of these permits lead to a mass shooting since I can't recall reading about it?" mass shooters don't get permits, if you're going to kill people will you really care about gun laws? You have to be fucking kidding me. My point was that carry permits exist, they're just not for the "peasants". "Look how your gun laws helped you in Texas" I'm not from Texas, and I'm not from America. I'd appreciate if you actually read what I write if you're going to reply. "That's about the same number US did in the last 8 months" did what? " your own terrorist casualties" Your? Again I'm not American. "So 50 years of terrorism is equal to 8 months of normal day to day life" I'm not even sure what you're comparing. 11 thousand people killed in the US and Europe in different time frames, but what are you even comparing? Terrorism? All deaths? Just homicide? Terrorism killed X people in Europe since Y and that's about the same the US did in the last 8 months. The US did the kills? Are we talking about warfare? Your sentence doesn't make sense, man.
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  25. +Koekenzopie "you're not from America but you sound like you are so I'm going to pretend you're American" yeah that's good logic bud. "And looking at the mass shootings in the US by the peasants, that thought saved many lives" mass shooters don't get carry permits. They don't get licensed to carry guns because they'll only have to carry ONCE. Did the Bataclan shooters get permits? Did the Charlie Hebdo shooters get permits? Did the Utoya shooter get permits? Did the Cumbria shootings guy get a permit? My point is that the state deems that some lives are worth protecting, others aren't. Guess which category you belong to. The state sees you as cattle "Just like speeding on a highway is only allowed by people who received proper training and only use it when necessary" that's a poor analogy because 90% of the cars on sale are able to speed over the limit by just flooring the throttle. You're able to own the means to speed, but trusted not to do harm with it. "US people shoot each other" You didn't clarify this. You just compared European terrorism to an unspecified statistic. Either way, I assumed the EU population to be 510 million and the average homicide rate as 2.69 per 100,000 people (stat by NationMaster, number dates to 2004). The math gives me 13719 homicides in the European Union in the same time frame those Americans gunned each other down. Congratulations, here in the EU we shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, asphyxiated, etc each other to death an estimated 14 thousand times. By your logic, it doesn't seem a safe space no more. "So a sane person prefers 11,000 murders in 50 years instead of 11,000 in one year" You're comparing terrorism in 50 years to straight up homicide. We've had 14 thousand homicides in the same time period. Higher population, but if you look at it the difference is minimal so the whole "preference" argument doesn't make any sense. And most of that homicide in the US happens within disputed blocks in large city gang warfare (many of those cities also have strict gun control). Unless you're in a gang selling drugs in specific areas of specific cities you're not likely to get shot. "So the point I'm making which any person in any other developed country already knows, US homicide rates is ridicously high" Not really. It's about two times as high as the average in the EU if I'm not mistaken. You want to see ridiculous? Brazil, Mexico, etc. The United States has a lot more in common with those countries than Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands... You look at some American cities and they're shitholes virtually indistinguishable from South America, except for the lack of jungle. And projects instead of favelas. But it's just as violent, poor as shitty as the neighboring countries. "And it will always stay ridicously high since they refuse to do anything about it." well legalizing drugs would curb a lot of homicide but what else would they do? There's millions of criminals who don't know how to do anything but be a criminal, sell drugs, and shoot people who sell drugs for another gang. Cities like Chicago have hundreds of shootings and these criminals are to blame. What else are they going to do? Life in prison? They're overcrowded. Drugs can't be stopped, gangs can't be stopped. The more you try to stop them the more violence. Doing anything about guns wouldn't have effects from centuries, there's 300 million guns in the US, criminals would never run out of guns to use. In Europe we don't have a border with Mexico, the US has one. In the US the drugs and cartels cross the border and bring their problems. How would the US do something about it? Trump's wall? They have drug smuggling boats and submarines. They can dig tunnels.
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  26. M16s use 20 inch barrels. Who the fuck runs around with a 29-30 inch barrel? AR-15s used to be like that before flat top rails and quad rail handguards. It's an AR15.
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  27. Several brands sell AR15s, and even each brand has several models. Overall length varies because a lot of people go with 16" or 14.5" barrel with a welded and pinned flash hider to make legal length, etc. So you can't just make the distinction based on length because an AR15 sold with the rifle buffer tube+rifle stock and a 20" to match the M16 configuration will be 39 inches overall too. It's not a M16 because the pins have a different reflection, and it doesn't seem to have a reflection where the third pin hole goes. A real M16 receiver costs almost 30 grand. "Over 30 years ago" the M4 didn't exist yet. So when you went out and bought an AR15 most were in rifle configuration (20" barrel and fixed stock). Nowadays most come in carbine configuration. But they're all AR15s.
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  28. +Panzer Blitz so because a person knows the law he's a terrorist?
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