2016-06-14, 08:38 AM
What hobby requires a machine gun or semi-automatic rifle?
Since you didn't answer my previous questions, I'll answer them for you:
1. The Boston Marathon bombers killed 3 people with their bombs.
2. In Paris, a total of 130 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks. Exactly one was killed by explosives (despite there being four suicide bombers), and all the rest were shot by automatic weapons.
3. Bonus question: the three suicide bombers at the Brussels airport and metro station killed 32 victims.
I'm not saying explosives are anything to laugh at. But I am saying that they are far less effective than machine guns. You can glibly say, "This guy may have killed -less- people" as if it didn't matter, but we're talking a LOT less people. Human lives matter more than somebody's right to "collect" semi-automatic weapons.
Since you didn't answer my previous questions, I'll answer them for you:
1. The Boston Marathon bombers killed 3 people with their bombs.
2. In Paris, a total of 130 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks. Exactly one was killed by explosives (despite there being four suicide bombers), and all the rest were shot by automatic weapons.
3. Bonus question: the three suicide bombers at the Brussels airport and metro station killed 32 victims.
I'm not saying explosives are anything to laugh at. But I am saying that they are far less effective than machine guns. You can glibly say, "This guy may have killed -less- people" as if it didn't matter, but we're talking a LOT less people. Human lives matter more than somebody's right to "collect" semi-automatic weapons.