• 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So fun fact

    The reason why it was the deadliest shooting is because the shitstain was using a bump stock, which makes semiautomatics into pseudo-automatics, so he just mag dumped into a crowd

    After it happened, the Trump admin of all fucking people banned bump stocks. Broken clock or something.

    Now SCOTUS is about to hear a court case to repeal the ban, and they look poised to legalize bump stocks again under the BS reason that “they’re not technically automatic weapons”

    With the added bonus that now everyone knows about them

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      8 months ago

      The reason why it was the deadliest shooting is because the shitstain was using a bump stock

      No, he was looking over a massive crowd of people with a rifle. He may have killed more people without a bump stock, given the difficulty it causes for accuracy. Saying it is a settled fact that it led to the deaths is just not true.

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        8 months ago

        He didn’t exactly need accuracy when there was a sea of targets in front of him, especially if his objective was to hit as many of them as possible before they could disperse.

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        8 months ago

        I mean, he didn’t really have much of a problem with accuracy - he fired a total of 1058 rounds, and those rounds or shrapnel from them injured 413 different people. Of course, many people received more than a single gunshot wound. He killed 58 (later 60) in ten minutes of shooting – effectively one person every 10 seconds. I think it would be difficult for a single person to injure or kill more from where he was standing with any weapon short of an RPG.

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          8 months ago

          kill more from where he was standing with any weapon short of an RPG.

          I think short of somehow knocking down a build that would make it more difficult because of the very slow reload speed.

          kill more from where he was standing with any weapon short of an RPG.

          And a semi-auto rifle can fire much faster than that without a bumpstock