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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Oddly it looks like the Orlando thread has been closed... not sure why.
Anyway, I just can't see any reason why the AR15 in particular is this huge threat for mass shootings? The guy had a handgun on him, in addition to an AR15 - it seems to me that he would have done just as much damage with the handgun. They're both semi-automatic weapons with a similar fire rate.
Is there some reason I'm wrong about this? I don't know much about guns, but it's not like he's trying to aim and shoot at people from 30+ yards away, he's just firing bullets more or less randomly into a crowd of people. The same thing is true of most of these incidents where the "number of people shot count" is high, like the Colorado theatre shooting.
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The AR-15 is a red herring to me, in the way of these conversations tend to divulge into "It's an assault weapon" vs "It's not because of clip size, fire rate, etc..." ignoring the whole premise of
its a weapon made to kill people at alarming rates, with great precision, and do so indiscriminately.
The bolded can be applied to any gun that can do those things, which is pretty much all of them.