he took like 3 shots before getting pincushioned, he could have done that with a bolt-action rifle. the fact that it was an "assault weapon" didn't help him much.
Outside of Pennsylvania, other states have successfully passed bans on assault weapons like automatic rifles.
Automatic rifles were effectively federally banned in 1986. Another gun article by an author who doesn't know what they're talking about.
The AR-15 is a common weapon of choice for mass shooters in the United States: the 2016 anti-LGBT Pulse nightclub shooting, the 2017 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, and the mass shooting at the 2017 Sutherland Springs church massacre all involved this semiautomatic rifle.
This is because the AR-15 is the most common rifle, not because of any special deadliness. Literally a quarter of all firearms made each year are AR-15s. You have four choices when buying a firearm:
- AR platform (ubiquitous)
- AK platform (for combloc larpers, I say this lovingly)
- a 9mm pistol, likely a Glock
- oddball shit
People do mass shootings with guns they already own. Crooks used his dad's rifle. Banning "assault rifles" (a nonsense category btw, it means a long list of particularly scary-looking semiautomatic rifles rather than any particular characteristic they share) would just mean that mass shootings are carried out with non-"assault" rifles. If you want to reduce mass shootings by bans, you gotta substantially reduce gun ownership in general. The only liberal plans to do this are ones that make gun ownership more expensive, allowing suburban fascists to keep their toys and criminalizing poor gas station clerks who can't afford 16 hours of CCL training for the pistol they carry.
definitely not wrong. a common joke about the AR platform is that it's the Barbie of the firearm world due to how much shit thats on market catering to it
Is Jacobin complete ass now? I've seen a handful of lib ass takes from them over the last few months
Eh. It has good and bad authors. They aren't strictly liberals, though they certainly have a liberal bias.
Fair. I don't like the"better than nothing" argument when defending liberal bullshit, but Jacobin seems like a decent lib/left pipeline.
Yes because it's the gun he had. If he had a mosin in the garage he would have used that and shot a similar amount of bullets and still miss all of them.
