Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 28 2023 10:35am)
And they're still far more deadly in general, even on a 1:1 comparison basis, look at V-Tech where he wasn't gunning down defenseless toddlers with nowhere to run. Handguns are more maneuverable in enclosed spaces where rifles are unwieldy, harder to be disarmed, easier to shoot someone who would try to grapple with you. Rifles have a range for efficiency, the Las Vegas shooting shows that limit. The kind of urban and in-door environments we're putting this disproportionate focus on, are the areas where handguns already kill thousands of times more people. Heck, rifle deaths become almost statistically insignificant.
But this is all a tired back and forth that's been done to death in every gun control debate.
My real question after all of this is, if the left is so serious about curbing gun violence, why wouldn't they push for actually enforcing gun laws? What's the point of passing new laws if you won't enforce them anyway?
the handgun vs rifle debate in the context of school shootings is like asking if a hot machete or hot katana go through butter more efficiently.
if we want to stop school shootings without butchering 2a, we need to filet 1a, and pass a law making it illegal to publish the face, name, manifesto, message, or social media posts of any shooter post shooting.