Look at data during banned assault rifles and after Bush changed the law in the early 2000s . Specially the data about mass shootings.
Simple as a gun enthusiast as you are . Would you enter a building with doorways and multi directional hallways with a weapon AR-15 with an average length of 32.5 inches or a regular hunting semi automatic which average 42 to 44 inches ?
Most people who don't know the real reason why they are really favored by those deranged shooters . You know as I know why pointing and shooting with a short barrel around a blind corner it's so advantageous....or anyone who played cowboys and indians with real pellet guns as kids or any airsoft enthusiast these days know...
But at the end of the day all those stats are about mental illness which is never addressed in the US. Canada has a slightly better handle on it so far and we are not allowing the best tools for mass shootings to be readily available.
This thread should be split in two to discuss the US problem and another one for Canada as people keep interjecting about things that are not always relevant to one country or the other at times.
400 million firearms. And that’s just what they know……..You going to March on them? And yes short barreled rifles have advantages. What is their capacity and what is ours.
Gun enthusiast you are.
Given our capacity. What is far far far far deadlier,
.223
Or
12 gauge slugs that will drop cops in body armor let alone anything else are accurate out past 100 yards and have entry wounds the size of a dime vs a twig. . Didn’t think about that……did you.
Do you actually own guns?
Most gun owners I know know ballistics too. And that the reason they are favoured is rate of fire and capacity…..which here in Canada means Jack shit. Both are the same.
A 1 oz. (437.5 grain) 2 3/4-inch Foster 12 gauge shotgun slug achieves a velocity of approximately 1,560 fps (475 m/s) with a muzzle energy of 2,363 ft. lbs (3204 j
.223???
959 ft⋅lbf (1,300 J)
Are you a gun owner?
And I wish I could agree about split discussions. 20 years experience every single time something happens in the US….this is what happens. Canadians ultimately start howling for bans and more GC..
And with respect to anyone that actually understood firearms. Me, if I wanted to create a nightmare unseen before. I’d start with a larger shot, just obliterating the kids/teachers. And when Leo showed up I’d switch to the slugs. Start dropping outside the school. And then make them shit their pants once in the hallways, “behind” doors…
Mine I could if I wanted shorten the barrel length too.
And I am, so very tired of this.