There are some rabbit holes honest and intelligent people do not want to go down.
Sure, you can ban bump stocks although, in reality, Congress has no such authority. Bump stocks made the shooter's kill count go down, not up, but nobody is interested in reality.
What you want is to ban a cosmetic feature of a firearm that does NOTHING to save lives. The objective of the left is not to change things for the prevention of death - it is only for the objective of banning guns.
This issue is not hard. It is easy to take a giant dump on Liberty on the pretext of Safety. It's going to be harder for ethical politicians NOT to cave in to worthless feel good ideas that solve NOTHING.
When you want to sit down and discuss things that will prevent mass shooters without banning guns, we can have THAT conversation. I have a feeling you won't have that conversation. This is not about saving lives; it's about the left wanting to ban guns. The left only cares about the loss of lives when it helps them take advantage of a political crisis to further their agenda.
Why ban automatic rifles if not bumpstocks? I do not understand the logical difference.
I'm not sure I understand your posts. So, let's see if we can meet at some point.
Automatic weapons for civilian use were made illegal when Ronald Reagan signed a law prohibiting the future manufacture of full auto for civilian use.
The difference between the bump stock and full auto fire is that the bump fire fires rapidly, but it is not full auto fire. Bump stocks are not as controllable
nor as accurate as full auto.
Then again, this is more about left wing semantics. If the shooter had not used a bump fire stock, but relied on night vision optics and aimed semi auto fire, with that big a crowd, he could have
doubled his kills.
So, knowing this, why does the liberal, knee jerk response still represent a danger? It's simple:
I've had the opportunity to acquire and use bump stocks all my life. But, full auto fire is primarily suppressive. Omar Mateen killed 49 people with a single weapon and semi-auto only mode. And he had far fewer targets to shoot at. I would still pass on owning a bump fire stock. But, we all realize that the issue is about one insignificant cosmetic feature today and tomorrow it's another. And the left will always be saying "
well it's a start."
Our founding fathers as well as the earliest court decisions did not allow for government meddling in the Right to keep and bear Arms - and for good reason. Today, we could reduce the numbers of people killed in mass shootings
without gun control.
The left will NEVER entertain that discussion. Their agenda is about banning guns
not saving lives.