(February 16, 2018 at 3:29 pm)notimportant1234 Wrote:(February 16, 2018 at 1:50 pm)wallym Wrote: Ideally, he wouldn't legally be able to get his hand on a pistol. But I'm not sure what sort of profiling would be necessary, and even possible constitutionally speaking.
Do you care that it was a semi-automatic rifle, and not a handgun? That's where I think gun control advocates come off a bit wonky. Because nobody believes that him killing 8 people with a handgun would be any more acceptable than killing 14 with an AR-15. It's a bit of mitigation, but it doesn't really solve the problem in any way.
The point that a semi-automatic rifle is deadlier than a hand gun, that is a fact.
Depends on the range and accuracy of the shooter. Most pistols are semi-automatic, so you can fire off the same number of shots in the same amount of time if you have a bunch of loaded magazines handy. You can be accurate at say 25-30 feet with a little bit of practice. You don't need more than that in a school. If we're going to restrict access to guns to people who are likely to commit school shootings, the type of gun is irrelevant. The only reason there aren't more dead kids in these situation is that they're likely running around a lot, and these shooters have shit aim. (Thank fuck)
