Granting all you say, there is one other aspect — rate of discharge. You can empty your Beretta in the time it takes my to fire 3-4 shots from my 357 revolver. A legal AR can probably discharge a full 250 round mega-clip in the time it takes you to empty, reload, and empty your Beretta. An illegal, full-auto, AR can get close to a single instance of your pistol being emptied.
Mr Macho would eschew most long guns for the same reason as most pistols — too slow to fill the air with lead. Also does not need to worry about skill. In WWII the ration of bullets to causalities was 25,000/1. Because of closed and highly compacted spaces your average mass shooter does better 200-500/1 but still relies on luck rather than skill. Assassins (mob hit men, etc) prefer a 22 and achieve pretty much a 1/1 ratio. Effectiveness, not posturing, is what matters to them. davew On Thu, Mar 25, 2021, at 9:28 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/24/boulder-ban-assault-rifles-mass-shooting > > https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9njz/atlanta-shooting-suspect-bought-his-gun-the-same-day-he-allegedly-killed-8-people > > According to the Vice article, the massage parlor shooter used a 9mm > handgun. I have a 9mm Beretta and I can fit 10 rounds in the mag. It > seems rifles can be unwieldy at close range. The only benefit I can > see, if you want to murder lots of people, is the rifle has some > stability that helps with targeting. So my question is whether banning > "assault" rifles is of any use at all? > > I do get that the styling appeals to machismo. But so do handguns. We > met a guy at the pub last weekend who brought his dog. A friend wanted > to take the dog inside to visit another dog who'd just arrived. The dog > owner nearly shouted at the friend: "Left side!", meaning the leash > should be held in the left hand. I asked, "Why?". The dog owner > explained that he always carries his handgun on the right hand side and > wants to train the dog to stay on the left, you know, so he can always > be ready to whip out his gun and kill people. > > That macho paramilitary, camo-wearing, pseudo-tough, stockpiles of > Mountain Dew in the basement [⛧] attitude seems to play some role in > those to whom the AR-15 appeals. I suppose the trick is teasing out > which ones are actually dangerous from those simply LARPing. Removing > the macho styling also, I suppose, targets the material cause. But it > seems too weak to matter much. > > > [⛧] https://youtu.be/QUHoFotHj9k?t=225 > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
