@oralloy,
Slide rules and computers are both used to do calculations but there is all the difference in the world in the two. There is that much difference between a semi-automatic an assault weapon.
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Your argument is not with me it is with Colt, the manufacturer of assault weapons. The manufacturer of assault weapons wants to make absolute sure that the public knows that their assault weapon will kill more in less time than other manufacturers of assault weapons. That is the selling point. Mass murderers choose the assault weapons that will kill the most.
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Then why do you need an assault weapon that fires at a 900 round a minute rate?
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If you are hunting with assault weapons you must want to kill the whole herd.
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Laws are limited to what is written not to what you can imagine. Many a court case has been lost because people imagined there was far more then what was written.
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Bump stocks only take advantage of the already existing design capabilities of assault weapons.
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A bump stock is just another way to make an assault weapon fire more like a full-automatic, the full-automatic firing mechanism is another.
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If you can ban a bump stock because it makes an assault weapon fire faster, you can ban the full-automatic mechanism.
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Pistol grips don’t increase the firing rate of assault weapons but they make mass murderers job much easier.
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When tools are designed, they are designed for a specific purpose such as killing a large number of people or for a butter knife to spread butter.
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The primary purpose for making assault weapons is to kill large numbers of people. Hunting can be done with a simple rifle.
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If you are really serious about committing mass murder assault weapons are the way to go.
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There are two completely different design of weapons one is a semi-automatic and one is an assault weapon.
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Again, your argument is with Colt who claim their assault weapons can fire at a 900 round a minute rate.
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The superior design of an assault weapons makes them capable of firing 900 rounds a minute rate.
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You need to read the specifications for assault weapons. The only difference between the semi-automatics version and the full automatics is a little modification of the firing mechanism. Same gun just one small difference.
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What might not be possible for you is possible for mass murderers. We know the Dayton shooter fired 41 rounds in 30 seconds. Do you think he had time to aim?
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Assault weapons, according to the doctors that treated the wounded in El Paso, said they have never seen such severe injuries except on battle fields. Twenty-two people died and 30 others were injured with baseball sized exit wounds according to doctors that treated them. Twenty-two dead is hardly minor injuries. The crowd might disperse after 22 are dead and 30 injured.
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Mass murders have proved over and over again that firing into crowds kills large number of people. How many times do you have to see it happen before you can see reality? You want to ignore reality and imagine what could happen. People in confined spaces often can’t escape fires let alone a mass murder armed with an assault weapon.
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You need not hit a vital area, a major artery wit a bas ball sized exit wound will make you just as dead. Crowds can’t out run 900 rounds a minute rate. Look what happen in Dayton.
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We are talking about weapons of war not pistol grips.
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The Ar-15 was patented 100s of other semi-automatics don’t require a patent and they can’t use the AR-15 mechanism without buying the patent.
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Your design has to be a major improvement over the current inventions or it will not qualify for a patent.
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When you design guns to fire hundreds of rounds a minute you want a kill rate of hundreds.
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There would be nothing left of a squirrel with the assault weapons used by mass murderers.
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Assault weapons are key ban them and the mass murder rate goes down when assault weapon ban expired mass murders went through the roof.
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I have never seen even one mass murderer hold a gun at his shoulder. The surveillance cameras show the pistol grip held at waist height. When your shooting at the equivalent of the broad side of the barn there is no need to aim.
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Tens of thousands of Americans have been slaughtered with assault weapons and it is just the tip of a very large ice burg. Soon there will be a mass shooting every fifteen minutes.
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Why don’t the mass murderers miss when holding assault weapons at waist height. Why would anyone even want a pistol grip if you were going to fire at shoulder height?
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A pistol grip makes it much harder to strip the gun from a mass murderer’s hand.
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You can see how a traditional rifle is held it is not nearly as secure.
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The weapon was designed to be held at waist level that is why there is a pistol grip on the assault weapon in the first place.
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Police response times give a mass murderer a very limited amount of time aiming wastes precious time if you need only hit the broad side of a barn there is no need to aim.
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If you had a barrel full of fish moving rapidly taking aim would be a waste of time. In the Pulse night club people are not standing still waiting on you to shoot them it would be a nightmare trying to aim.
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It is easy to tell where the bullets are going and adjust them to hit the targets when you have so many rounds.
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What played a part in the death tool was the assault weapons.
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One woman in Las Vegas was shot three times if he was aiming, he should have killed her on the first shot.
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Most mass murders where large numbers are killed used assault weapons all the record mass murders used assault weapons.
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The exact same reason for banning bump stocks applies ten times more to assault weapons.
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That is why we banned bombs years ago so the banning of assault weapons should be no surprise. Bombs and explosives have been banned for a number of years. The truck killing was done by a professional military organization. Norway was done on an island with no escape. We can’t do anything about the whole world we can only control America. The Virginia Tech was shooting was accomplished by chaining all the exits. Most of your examples come from foreign countries many that are hardly civilized