Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Constitutionality of Proposed Firearms Legislation [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)..."mass carnage in a matter of seconds".
Let's face it; you are trying to wage some kind of cultural war on the kind of people that would like to purchase those types of guns.
This HAS to be the answer, because banning semi-automatic rifles fed from a detachable magazine IF AND ONLY IF they have anything on them that "looks military" will not in any way, shape, or form reduce the ability to cause carnage in seconds.
Here's your problem from a very, very practical point of view.
The Newtown massacre was done in a situation where a deranged, psychotic person had 3-5 minutes of time to kill as many people as he wished to before law enforcement could intervene. The people, adults and children, were in a contained environment which offered limited avenues to escape, and very limited opportunities to hide. The people there were also not the kind likely to be able to physically take on Fuckwad directly.
The only way to limit the amount of casualties Fuckwad caused in the 3-5 minutes, at least in terms of gun technology, would be to lock firearms development to, say, 1850.
This of course is impossible.
So your stated reason for wanting to re-create and then ban certain kinds of popular guns with certain kinds of popular features in fact falls pretty flat. The potential for mass slaughter will not be diminished, particularly when such psychopaths deliberately pick undefended, target-rich environments.
If fuckwad had instead used a double-barreled shotgun, there would be just as many kids and teachers dead. He had 180 to 300 seconds to kill. Assuming he took 10 seconds to fire 2 rounds and then reload, he would have been able to fire betwen 36 and 60 rounds (of 9 or more pellets per shot) before he was finished.