I don't like making the argument semiautos are legal and the criminal made an illegal automatic to use in the crime. To me it implies that automatics are bad and should be illegal and that we should blame the type of gun instead of the shooter. Should automatics be banned? I don't think so. If we base the legality of a firearm on the amount of people it can kill, then eventually it'll come down to semiautomatics can kill a lot of people quickly so they should be banned too. We should focus on the shooter
Another thing to keep in mind is not to automatically disregard someones anti-gun statement no matter how outlandish you think it is. They have a legitimate concern where a lot of people died and got hurt from a firearm. If one of my family members were killed in the incident, I may have second thoughts myself. We share the same concerns, just different ways to solve the problem.
Doesn't seem accurate enough...
It's possible, brace it on a table and look through the sights while firing. He's trying to hit something the size of a basketball court at 300-400 yards.
The only question is: What level of casualties is America prepared to accept in exchange for the right to bear arms?
I think about this question everytime something like this happens. What I came up with is what is more important, rights or safety or equal parts of the two? America has the most freedoms by far than any other nation and hundreds of thousands of Americans died in the wars for independence, civil war, WWI and WWII to protect our rights. So America has a history of sacrificing safety for rights. Every death by a firearm is tragic whether it's through crime, suicide, defensive, etc but we can't sacrifice rights as it's what America is about.