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Originally Posted by Dunnyberg
Odd timing on the anniversary of Gamil Gharbi killing 14 in Montreal, and the recent Metis mass shooting in Winnipeg for the same old debunked gun arguments to be brought up again.
Yes America has lots of guns, but it has always had lots of guns. Terroristic mass shootings have only become common in the last 25 years.
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It coincides with the rise of the fetishization of semi auto military inspired long rifles such as the AR15, if you go back 30 or 40 years ago the average long gun owner had a shotgun or a bolt action hunting rifle, you could use these for a killing spree, occasionally they were, but that required vastly more skill and still limited the body count due to the slower nature of the loading and aiming process