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In reply to the discussion: Las Vegas Shooting Victims Sue Bump Stock Makers [View all]Always Right
(84 posts)With cigarettes, the harm was cancer when used as intended while drunk driving is criminal use, which is what we are talking about.
As for use, an automatic weapon can be used in any situation that a semi-automatic weapon can as it doesn't have to be used in automatic mode.
In general, the police and military use automatic weapons in semi auto mode as it is substantially faster and more accurate.
In the LV shooter's case, it was still a semi-automatic gun (legally speaking) but his intention wasn't accuracy, it was volume of fire.
In the LV shooting, there were 10 wounded for each one killed while in the Orlando Pulse shooting (second most deadliest in the US) had a roughly 1 to 1 ratio. That is the difference between aimed fire and spray and pray of full auto.