• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    A particular gun, yes, but there are features of the AR-15 that make it more effective. High muzzle velocity means more energy, so you tear apart organs instead of just punching a hole. Magazine-fed means you can shoot more of those high velocity rounds, and semi-automatic means your rate of fire is much higher.

    Banning a specific model of firearm is stupid, but there are attributes that we can regulate to prevent the most deadly weapons from being so readily available.

    Then again, if you’re making this argument you probably think that living in fear of being shot in the grocery store and turning schools into supermax prisons is a perfectly acceptable compromise and this discussion will go nowhere like the last hundred times it’s happened.