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>The number of automatic weapons dropped through the floor. There are almost no automatic weapons in circulation in the US and most people have never seen one
by yucky 4y ago
>The number of automatic weapons dropped through the floor.
There are almost no automatic weapons in circulation in the US and most people have never seen one in real life. Perhaps you mean semi-automatic? If so, that describes most guns other than revolvers and most shotguns.
>There have been no mass killings without automatic weapons (they're kind of necessary).
The truth is literally the exact opposite of this. There hasn't been a mass shooting with an automatic weapon in decades. The closest we have seen was the Las Vegas shooter who basically modified his semi-auto's with a bump stock which is illegal to buy now.
Also, the deadliest school shooting in US history was done by a student at Virginia Tech named Seung-Hui Cho and all he had was two handguns.
- olliej 4y agoOk, to everyone except people who seem to believe that guns are the solution to every problem, given the context there is no difference between automatic and semiautomatic. The only thing that matters is the ability to fire sufficiently quickly to kill lots of kids. I understand that for many Americans, the ability to play weekend warrior[1] takes priority over the risk of dozens of dead kids, but it does seem that the majority of even Americans prefer alive kids to dead ones. [1] noting of course that weekend warriors are generally unwilling to actually do anything that puts them in danger to defend the country, they just want to shoot things.
- yucky 4y ago>Also, the deadliest school shooting in US history was done by a student at Virginia Tech named Seung-Hui Cho and all he had was two handguns. See above (emphasis added).