Tommy Gunn was wrong because he's comparing multiple New York reloads to an AR with a drum magazine. The AR with the big magazine will deliver more rounds considerably faster than trying to use three guns with lower capacities. We can go ahead and admit that a semi-automatic copy of an assault rifle makes it easier to shoot a lot of people. That is the purpose of such rifles, is it not?
Damn Skippy it is. And I don't hide that fact. If confronted, I say, "Yep, it's a killing machine, and I might need it someday. And those who misuse it is not enough reason to abridge my rights."
And arguably, that's what's REALLY at the root of all gun control. It's not about "regular" crime, and it's not about spree killers either. It's two allied camps of thought. One camp subconsciously knows that the "good people" or "normal people" might have to shoot a bunch some day, be it SHTF/Collapse, Civil War II, or God knows what... and it scares them. They want guns off the table so they don't have to think about it. The second camp knows it consciously, and just wants to control us.
And the fact that a large portion of the population, larger than any nation in the world's standing army can use force of arms, albeit in not a very organized or skilled manner, initally anyway... is key to what still makes America "different" than just about any other place on Earth save Switzerland...
At the risk of engaging in
reductio ad absurdum, the most basic definition of "government" (to paraphrase Hobbes) is "The entity or organization that has a monopoly over the legitimate use of force." And what exactly defines "legitimate" is of course, for the eye of the beholder. The men with the guns make the rules, and the men with the guns enforce them.
If we truly are a government, for, and, and of the people, than there can be no monopoly over the legitimate use of force. Maintaining that balance is more important than crime, school or movie theater massacres, or the occasional dead child.
