note I said nothing about banning AR-15s. i'm fully aware there's plenty of other options out there for people to fall back on.
my original point was to address surfgun's assertion that Armalites are inferior weapons to a Remington Model 8. they are not.
the second point is to address your argument that banning AR-15s would actually make mass shootings more dangerous. i find this very unlikely. such a narrow ban would likely be minimally effective, but that's different from saying that it would make the problem worse.
frankly the current state of gun regulations in the US just dances around the fact that if you want to reduce mass shootings, then the solution is to either reduce the number of firearms available in general, or alternatively, the number of people with access to firearms. the secondary solution is to reduce the lethality of the available weapons. which, to address the fact that you have many variations on firearms, would probably mean regulations on rate of fire and round size.
however, because this is extremely unpopular among a certain set of folks with outsized political power, the result is a kludge.
my original point was to address surfgun's assertion that Armalites are inferior weapons to a Remington Model 8. they are not.
the second point is to address your argument that banning AR-15s would actually make mass shootings more dangerous. i find this very unlikely. such a narrow ban would likely be minimally effective, but that's different from saying that it would make the problem worse.
frankly the current state of gun regulations in the US just dances around the fact that if you want to reduce mass shootings, then the solution is to either reduce the number of firearms available in general, or alternatively, the number of people with access to firearms. the secondary solution is to reduce the lethality of the available weapons. which, to address the fact that you have many variations on firearms, would probably mean regulations on rate of fire and round size.
however, because this is extremely unpopular among a certain set of folks with outsized political power, the result is a kludge.
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