Terrorist attack kills 50 in Orlando, Florida

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.

At the time a machine gun WAS the most effective thing to fall on, but if there were no guns realistically obtainable from the start you would be seeing vastly different body numbers from non-firearm methods.


Collecting guns is a hobby, and going out and firing them in safe, effective ranges that utilize proper gun safety is nothing to shame someone for. If someone likes to hold heavy firearms they should have the right to do so provided they pass a multitude of permit-checks and psychological verifications. I've been in the Military before and a lot of the people personally collect firearms and they do it perfectly safe and are in no danger of shooting anyone; I don't feel that I should fight to have their rights taken away in exchange for a low-effective bandaid solution. I hate to sound like a super-American but I really hold our rights in high regard, even if it means we have to risk danger I'm very reluctant to feel that someone's rights should be stripped away in favor of security....especially when it just won't stop killers from killing.

I'm fine with stricter verifications and more detailed security clearances to hold weapons, but telling Billybobjoe he can't collect firearms because Abdul Mohhamad Al Ur shot a bunch of people a couple hundred miles away when Abdul would have found some other method of killing people anyway is just not something I can support.