2aguy
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That was the reasoning in Miller. Until Scalia’s judicial activism the 2A was always considered within the construct of the militiaIf that is your reasoning, using Miller, a machine gun should be protected, because that is something that would be quite useful in a militia (as opposed to the sawed-off shotgun Miller had).As per Miller then. That shot gun and bolt action rifle have 2A protection. The AR does notCAN various other weapons be used for mass killing? YesThe dozens killed in Sandy Hook, Parkland, Vegas, and numerous other places would disagreeNor is an AR-15 remotely unusual, hazardous to others, or any other rational as to why it could be in any way restricted from average people.
The only shooting where a rifle makes a difference was vegas.....where the shooter was shooting over several hundred yards.....
The distances involved in mass public shootings are so small that shotguns and pistols are no different from rifles....you doofus....
There is only one mass public shooting where the rifle had an advantage in the shooting, and that was Las Vegas, where the range was over 200 yards......but he was also firing into a tightly packed crowd of over 22,000 people, at night, from a concealed and fortified position.......with his initial shooting masked by the concert.
And had the crowd not been trapped in that concert arena, he wouldn't have been able to kill as many since they would have run away or found cover.....since shooting at moving targets at hundreds of yards is almost impossible for all but expertly trained shooters...
At the range of every other mass public shooting a rifle has no advantage over pistols or shotguns.......
Boulder, rifle 10 killed
A 7 shot, pump action shotgun..... murdered 12, like the Navy Yard shooter...
A 5 shot, pump action shotgun..... murdered 20 people and wounded 70, like the Kerch, Russia shooter...with the local police station 100 yards away....
9mm pistol, and a .22 caliber pistol with a 10 round magazine and murdered 32 people like the Virginia tech shooter...
2, 9mm pistols and murdered 24 people, like the Luby's cafe shooter....
double barreled shotgun, and a .22 caliber bolt action rifle...and killed 13 people, like the shooter in Cumbria, England did....
That rifle has no special advantage in a mass public shooting.
But assault weapons make it so much easier and this deadly... which is why machine guns are so heavily regulated and banned
The AR-15 is not an assault weapon or machine gun...
The AR-15 is not a weapon of war....and has never been used by the U.S. military.
The 5 shot, pump action shotgun and bolt action hunting rifle are actual military weapons, in current use by the U.S. military.
No...it wasn't....the 2nd Amendment as the first, speaks to individual, not collective Rights...you moron.