Dear pedantic shits saying it's a Sig Sauer MCX, not an AR-15, and not an assault rifle: FUCK YOU

[AtheistCrusader]

205. Perspective.

I understand why you are taking this approach. There are multiple to every issue. In context, these weapons are a very, very small footnote of an issue. But in context of this particular attack, it's devastating.

How to balance raw numbers with human loss? Now you're running into differences in how people process risk, how they process grief, all of that colors how we analyze what the bigger problem is. Of guns, pistols are the biggest problem, despite the horror of this particular attack and the apparent aggressiveness and limited utility of the weapon used.

No, if the weapon wasn't available, the shitbag murderer in this case wouldn't have ninjitsu'd everyone to death. Might have pulled a Boston Marathon and built a bomb though. Any number of terrible, murderous options still on the table, most requiring a little more effort, but given this particular monster's level of rage and hate, nothing is off the table.

If we restore from backup and re-run the last ten years of the world, that monster might still have slaughtered dozens even if we took those weapons out of circulation entirely. Most likely he'd have used a homemade bomb.