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In reply to the discussion: I'm all for a total ban on semi-automatic guns [View all]NeedleCast
(8,827 posts)Lets take the case of the Newtown shooting. Lanza goes into a classroom and starts shooting. He appears to shoot until he has no one else to shoot in his immediate vicinity, and then kills himself. So your argument is that he would have killed less people if he had only revolvers...why? Who would have stopped him? At that point it becomes a hypothetical argument. His potential to kill people is the same with revolvers as it is with handguns.
Same thing in Aurora. The shooter appears to have stopped because he decided to stop. Then he walked out of the theater and was taken into custody without further incident. The point is, in the majority of these mass shootings, the shooter wasn't stopped by an outside force. They stopped when they decided to stop, or they stopped when they shot themselves. Rate of fire isn't really applicable to the body count in most of these situations.
(and just for the sake of argument, I'm not a gun lover, nor do I own any guns).