It seems you have been sucked into the myth... you're just not
bright enough to realize it. Show me the USAF training manual that states that the AR-15 is designed to merely wound and not kill and I'll yield the point. But even to that point... Do I believe their are other guns that have more instant stopping power... sure. But saying the AR-15 is only meant to wound, not kill, because it creates absolutely devastating wounds that kill in an hour instead of instantly and acting like that's somehow a meaningful distinction in context of whether ordinary citizens should have unfettered access to such killing -- er, wounding that eventually kills you -- power, is just silly.
You probably also bought the canard that bump stocks saved lives in Vegas. I suppose some people will buy any propaganda the gun nuts put out there.
As to your statistics, sorry but 11K deaths is not a statistical anomaly, particularly when our gun homicide rate is 5-20x higher than any country in Europe and there is a fairly direct statistical correlation between gun deaths and guns per capita. And no, I don't consider it "punishment" to ban near military grade weapons capable of inflicting such mass casualties -- er, I mean wounds that eventually cause an agonizing death -- from the general public. These people are not being punished any more than I'm being "punished" by my inability to buy anthrax spores, dynamite, c4 explosives, or a stinger missile. There's no legitimate need for the public to own such mass killing ... er, I mean mass wounding which eventually leads to death ... power. And in cases where there is a legitimate need (i.e. marauding feral hogs), I'm fine with some sort of HEAVILY regulated exception process for someone who can demonstrate a legitimate need.
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Posted: 02/21/2018 at 06:04AM