Here We Go Again

[chris_gerrib]

Here we go again - lone wolf white dude gets a collection of guns and decides to hose down a crowd. Given that he was shooting from 400 meters away (per here) any security measure that didn't involve counter-sniper teams at full alert would be useless.

We'll hear a lot about "thoughts and prayers" and how attacks like these are unavoidable, but "thoughts and prayers" aren't very helpful and attacks like these are in fact avoidable. The harder it is to get high-capacity semi-auto weapons, the harder these attacks are. And yes, I'm aware that this appears to have been done with a full-auto weapon. It's a lot easier to hide a full-auto weapon in a forest of cosmetically identical semi-autos.

Comments

Re: Let’s do France then

[chris_gerrib]

And what was the number in 2014? In 2013? In 2012? Again, sir, you're cherry-picking. You're picking one incident which may be the highest mass death toll in decades vs. what's an average year in the US.

Re: Let’s do France then

[malobukov]

Try a longer period. Add Charlie Hebdo and other cases. You will see the same pattern. Don’t trust me, run the numbers yourself. I used to live in a country with constitution that had neither first nor second amendment. I came to the US not because you were doing something wrong, but because we are doing something right.