Reply #5: The most dangerous type of firearm is the [View All]

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one aimed at you by a person motivated to delete you. This can be a single shot hunting rifle, a shotgun or a revolver.

It only takes one shot to ruin your day, so the fact that someone may have more than 10 rounds on tap that they can fire without manual intervention makes little difference. A person does not become a raging maniac just because they have a semi-auto in their hands - they are either sociopaths or they are not. They are either motivated to kill someone for no good reason or they are not - considering how popular semi-autos are among average people, YOU would think there would a lot more shootings.

The point is that we don't want nuts and crooks to own any kind of gun, and that restricting semi-autos won't make the slightest difference to "gun violence". The only effect such legislation will have is on people's voting habits.