@oralloy,
A semi-automatic and assault weapon are two completely different animals. No semi-automatic can fire at the rate of 900 rounds a minute and none needs to. There is no reason to shoot a deer 900 times. The number of deer you can kill is limited so there is no need to kill the whole herd. The Constitution is silent on assault weapons as they were not invented until over a century after the constitution was written. The bump stock is just a mechanism to make the AR-15 fire faster and serves the same purpose as the mechanism in the gun. If you can ban one you can ban the other.
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Semi-automatic might not fire 900 rounds a minute but assault weapons were designed to fire at that rate.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++AssAssault weapons are designed to kill large number of people on the battlefield they have only one other purpose, mass murder. There were two shootings over already this week, one in California and one at a Wal Mart. At the Garlic Fest 3 were killed and 11 were wounded and wouldn’t you know it an assault weapon made it possible. The 19-year-old mass murderer bought his AK-47 legally on line all you need do is tell them how many people you want to kill and they will recommend an assault weapon and send you the necessary ammunition.
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The best approach to solve a problem is to go to the root of the problem and the root of the problem is the mechanism that makes assault weapons capable of firing at a 900 round a minute rate.
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Semi-automatics don’t fire 900 rounds a minute but assault weapons do and that is the specification listed by the manufacturer.
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Just trying pulling your trigger finger as many times as possible and a 450-minute rate is indeed possible.
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When firing into a large crowd people occupy most of the space. If you don’t hit the person in the front than you may hit someone in the fifth row back. Shooting into a large crowd it is impossible to miss. Someone shooting in the general direction of a crowd will kill far more than someone taking careful aim. While the murderer is aiming the crowd will escape. You need that assault weapon firing at 900 round a minute rate. That will make a mess of any crowd.
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The firing mechanism in assault weapons is far different than the one in a typical semi-automatic. That is why the AR-15 was patented. If you don’t make a major improvement you can’t get a patent.
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Assault weapons were designed to kill large number of people, they were not designed to go squirrel hunting with.
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If the pistol grip design version of assault weapons was banned mass murders might not stop but the body count would go down. Can you imagine how awkward it would be to fire a traditional rifle at waists level?
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I don’t know about you but if I was facing a large crowd of violent gang members, I would not want a rifle but an assault weapon held at waist height would bring down many gang members but a rifle at my shoulder would not stop them.
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The pistol grip is designed to be held by hands and offers a much more secure control of the gun.
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That may be what it is coming to is locked doors at public building with metal detectors. Our Courthouse has used metal detectors since 9/11. The metal detectors need to in front of a secure metal door.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Machine gun Kelly did not have any trouble robbing banks and few would take him on.
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That shooting took place in the Pulse Night Club. The mass murderer could not miss the people were packed in like sardines wherever he shot he hit someone. He did not waste many bullets. There is no doubt it took place that is history.
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While a mass murderer was taking aim, someone would take his gun away. Someone taking aim would lose his peripheral vision making him vulnerable to attack. You have to trust the mass murders and with the exception of one shooting from the top of a clock tower none bothered to take careful aim.
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As soon as the deer heard that first shot the rest of the heard would be history.
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The guns used by the Las Vegas shooter had pistol grips and for what he was doing were more than likely held with the pistol grips. The weapons with bump stocks may have been shoulder fired. One was mounted on bipods. Strafe from the shoulder would be much more difficult.
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That is the exact reason mass murderers chose assault weapons with pistol grips.
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That one shooting in Las Vegas was enough to get bump stocks banned.
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Most mass murders where large numbers of people are killed are done with assault weapons.
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If your target is a large crowd shooting in the general direction will be more efficient. The number of kills are proportional to the number of rounds fired.
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Strafing from the waist position is much easier.
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Pistol grips are like steering wheels on cars they make the car easier to drive.
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Weapons of mass destruction are those that kill masses of people. If there was an accurate body count on assault weapons people would be surprised.
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Dead is dead whether you get a bullet in the head in a night club or killed by an atomic bomb.
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Weapons of mass destruction kill masses of people and death is death.
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A rifle held at shoulder height is not as efficient as one at waist height when it comes to strafing
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Missiles were designed to carry a payload whether conventional or atomic.
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When our drones fire hells fire missiles there is quite an explosion and many dead people.
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We have never had a mass murder using a heavy truck in America. Knife attacks seldom kill more than one or two but we are now approaching a mass murder every day in America most using assault weapons.