by KaiserJeep » Fri 16 Feb 2018, 19:19:18
If I wanted to slaughter people indiscriminently in a crowd I would not choose an AR-15. I would choose a Winchester 12-guage pump shotgun and load it with 00 buckshot, 3" magnum shells, and saw the choke off so that the pattern expands in a cone. Holding the trigger down, I would stroke the slide and it would fire up to eight shots with nine .38-caliber pellets per stroke (depending upon the exact model), the equivalent of 72 rounds of .38 or 9mm but with even more lethality because of higher velocity. The 12-guage pump IMHO is the deadliest small arm sold, and shotguns can be bought by 18-year-olds in many places where an AR-15 or handgun purchase requires you to be 21 years of age.
If I wanted to kill more people than a small arm of any type, I would use a deadlier weapon than a gun, I would choose a Hummer H1 vehicle which in the civilian model has optionally built in armor proof against .50 caliber (or 12.7mm), run-flat tires, and a supercharged diesel engine and 40" diameter tires. Then I would drive this vehicle through a crowd, such as the concert venue in Las Vegas where the mass shooting occurred last year. I believe the people killed would be up to 3X anything anybody could do with a small arm of any type, in a vehicle that can withstand anything the local SWAT team has available to stop it. The minimum age for a driver's license is 16 years in most states.
If I wanted to kill mass numbers of people, I would turn an LNG tanker ship into one large fuel-air bomb using a couple of tons of high explosives and a precision electronic ignition. The flash and explosive yield would be similar to the Hiroshima bomb. The exact information needed by any person with a background in engineering, mathematics, or the sciences can be found in the open stacks of the civil engineering library at most colleges and universities. I know because I perused such information as an undergraduate, and did not use the knowledge for 40+ years afterwards.
My point would be that a clever person with a technical background could figure out many ways of killing others. I came up with the above thoughts in about a minute. However I am not mentally ill and have no plans to kill anyone.
Gun controls simply do not work, because they are not addressing the problem which is a mentally ill person with a desire to kill others. I have no desire to kill anyone, but I know from my reading that about 10% of the US population - somewhere in the range of 25 to 35 million people, are in fact at one or more times in their life mentally ill and meet the criteria to be listed in the FBI firearms database.
Yet at last count there were somewhere south of 50,000 names in the FBI database for reasons of mental illness (along with millions of criminals), and a significant number of those listed were already deceased. This most recent Florida shooting is yet another case where somebody was under the care of a mental health professional, and was not listed in the FBI database, and therefore could purchase a firearm legally. BTW, WalMart is the #1 source of AR-15's, shotguns, and handguns in the US, and they very definately consult the FBI database before a sale.
Gun controls don't work because we don't use them. Mental health professionals often quote patient confidentiality as the primary reason for not listing their dangerous patients. There is no downside that I know of for this lack of responsibility for such "professionals".
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KaiserJeep on Fri 16 Feb 2018, 19:33:21, edited 2 times in total.
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