Reply #110: It's not a matter of *wanting* a damn thing

[Euromutt]

It's a matter of having read and heard at least dozens of news media reports in which a firearm was initially described as "automatic" only to have it subsequently be revealed that it was in fact semi-automatic. Generally without the news outlet in question noting the correction to the earlier error, it might be noted.

And as for the weapon doing "a massive amount of damage in a short time," there have been mass knifings that have produced higher body counts than this. Essentially, if you've got an armed killer running amok, and all his intended victims are unarmed, it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference what particular type of weapon the killer's using.