Originally Posted by andrewwynn

One of the deadliest mass murders in us history was carried out with a single gallon of gasoline. Happy Land night club in the Bronx in 1990. (87 dead)

I'd personally rather carry a hidden pistol than a defensive gallon of gas.

The only way you could even reduce fire arm assault is ether eliminate the firearm or the madman. Neither is possible so we have to only do what we can to reduce the pain inflicted when one of these madmen go off.

"Gun control law" is an oxymoron. Gun control means you can hit the bullseye.

That all said, my opinion is that the ATF under the previous admin watch dropped the ball on the bump stock. It's kinda pointless to argue that they should have outlawed them but if they simply required registration then somebody buying a dozen of them within a year could raise a red flag.

That being said, even in this Vegas case, the mortality rate was less than 10% which seems directly related to the utterly random dispersion and it has been logically argued that had the gunman used an unmodified deer hunting rifle (what ignorant folk like to call an assault rifle apparently because it's black instead of brown) he would have killed many more people.

The gunman believed the myth of "assault rifle" and thought he would be able to kill basically every person he hit from 400-500 yards. This miscalculation saved hundreds of people. I have no doubt had he known how low the mortality rate was he would have taken a different path.

A bolt action 30-06 would have caused more fatalities in 10-11 minutes. You cannot legislate away evil it is stuck with its forever.

Freedom is the opposite of civility we have to trade off some freedoms to stay civilized but I'm ok to trade some civility to still have freedom.