@Baldimo,
Quote Blickers:
Quote:There are a couple of reasons, one of which is that the assault weapon has been glorified
Quote Baldimo:
Quote:Who has glorified them? I'll tell you, the left-wing media. Wall to wall coverage every time there is a mass shooting, spending as much time as possible talking about the death machine that was used
So now if a shooter goes through a school killing kids and teachers, you want the media NOT to cover it? Or give less coverage?
Used to be kids in school learning the ABCs was the personification of nice, safe, normal life. Now you and the rest of the gun nuts want to amend that to "I used to worry about my kid getting shot in school, but I've realized that statistically it's not that much so I've learned to just live with it".
Quote Blickers:
Quote:so that even in semiautomatic mode [assault-style weapons] is clearly attractive to deranged people who want to end it all and go out in a Blaze Of Glory taking as many innocents with them as possible.
Quote Baldimo:
Quote:What other mode is there for a semi-auto rifle?See the language you use? Who is the biggest promoter of mass shootings in the US? The leftist media
There are, or at least were, semiauto rifles which are not assault style. Can you give me a list of mass shootings where a semiauto rifle
not assault style was used? Let's compare them to this list of recent mass shootings where a semiauto assault style weapon WAS used:
June 20, 2012: James Eagan Holmes, 24, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber Smith and Wesson rifle with a 100-round magazine, a 12-gauge Remington shotgun and two .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistols to kill 12 and injure 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Dec. 14, 2012: Adam Lanza, 20, used an AR-15-style rifle, a .223-caliber Bushmaster, to kill 27 people — his mother, 20 students and six teachers — in Newtown, Conn., before killing himself.
June 7, 2013: John Zawahri, 23, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber rifle and a .44-caliber Remington revolver to kill five and injure three at a home in Santa Monica, Calif., before he was killed.
March 19, 2015: Justin Fowler, 24, used an AR-15 to kill one and injure two on a street in Little Water, N.M., before he was killed.
May 31, 2015: Jeffrey Scott Pitts, 36, used an AR-15 and .45-caliber handgun to kill two and injure two at a store in Conyers, Ga., before he was killed.
Oct. 31, 2015: Noah Jacob Harpham, 33, used an AR-15, a .357-caliber revolver and a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to kill three on a street in Colorado Springs, Colo., before he was killed.
Dec. 2, 2015: Syed Rizwyan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, 28 and 27, used two AR-15-style, .223-caliber Remington rifles and two 9 mm handguns to kill 14 and injure 21 at his workplace in San Bernardino, Calif., before they were killed.
June 12, 2016: Omar Mateen, 29, used an AR-15 style rifle (a Sig Sauer MCX), and a 9mm Glock semi-automatic pistol to kill 49 people and injure 50 at an Orlando nightclub before he was killed.
Oct. 1, 2017: Stephen Paddock, 64, used a stockpile of guns including an AR-15 to kill 58 people and injure hundreds at a music festival in Las Vegas before he killed himself.
Nov. 5, 2017: Devin Kelley, 26, used an AR-15 style Ruger rifle to kill 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before he was killed.
Feb. 14, 2018: Police say Nikolas Cruz, 19, used an AR-15-style rifle to kill at least 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/14/ar-15-mass-shootings/339519002/
Okay, like I said before, just show me a list of the mass shootings in recent years where the shooter used a semiauto rifle that was not an assault style rifle. If you cannot provide such a list, then you must admit that semiauto rifles in the assault style DO have a special attraction to deranged people to use as a method to go out of this world in a Blaze Of Glory, taking as many innocent people with them.