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Originally Posted by Derwood
nice try. if you want to use Va Tech as an example, then having him armed with a machine gun would have resulted in a lot more than 25 deaths. you can try to twist it all you like, but there is NO reason for a civilian to own a machine gun. NONE.
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Say... have you ever fired a "machine gun" in real life? Turns out it doesn't work like in [your favorite video game here]. Automatic weapons are extremely difficult to use effectively outside of the movies. They require a lot of training to become competent.
Firing a reasonably weighted personal automatic weapon, such as the M249 SAW, require thousands of rounds to get down to a useful level of skill... handling an "assault rifle" sized personal weapon, such as the M4 carbine or AK47, with an automatic firing option is downright horrible at anything beyond spitting distance for even the most well trained shooters I've seen. Basically: you can't hit shit. Semi-automatic weapons are more dangerous for nutjob shooters because the require more brainpower to operate and are generally more forgiving.
A semi-auto rifle such as a civilian-legal AR or AK would be much more dangerous in the hands of a dumbass school shooter as it would at least limit them to as fast as their finger can operate, mitigating some of the recoil impulse and improving overall accuracy.
Maybe you should just try to ban all guns with a catchy slogan:
Semi-automatic weapons: Training wheels for mass murders!
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People who write gun laws know nothing about firearms outside of their Hollywood education.