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The killer carried an assault rifle and a pistol, making it as easy as shooting fish in a barrel and accumulate huge numbers of murdered victims.
Maybe one should ask - WHY does a person need an assault rifle? WHY should he have been able to get it? Same thing with the San Diego shooters - they had an arsonal and bullet proof armor. We need to look at extremist ideology yes, but we also need to look at the factors that help to create such a huge death toll.
He entered a confined space, packed with 350 people, in the dark, with loud music and strobe lights....and most of them were in some form of intoxication and some under the influence of drugs....
and they were all in a gun free zone......so your gun control laws actually worked, not one innocent gay person in that dance club had a gun.....
those are the real factors, not the rifle....
The rifle had nothing to do with the body count...he could have used a gym bag full of revlovers and gotten the same result....
there are 3,750,000 AR-15s in private hands......
one was used illegally to commit the illegal act of murder....
that means that 3,749,999 AR-15s in private hands were not used for any form of crime.....
Do you understand what those numbers mean?
Law abiding Americans use the AR-15 rifle and others like it for self defense, hunting, competition and collecting and never use them for anything else.....
your logic is that banning 3,749,999 AR-15s that were not used to commit murder would stop the one guy from committing murder with one rifle.....
While the AR-15 and actual fully automatic rifles are completely illegal in France...they have 0 AR-15s in France.......let me repeat...they have 0 AR-15s in France....and islamic terrorists on government watch lists got illegal, fully automatic rifles...AK-47s which are also completely illegal in france and murdered 140 people...and injured hundreds of others............
So how does your post make any sense at all........
The rifle had nothing to do with the body count...he could have used a gym bag full of revlovers and gotten the same result....
I disagree - he would have had to stop, pick up a fresh gun each time, and that could have allowed time for someone to intervene.