On 2020-05-02 3:16 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 1:50:49 PM UTC-4, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 May 2020 09:45:46 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 12:04:54 PM UTC-4, Boron Elgar wrote:
>>>
>>>> Look, Davey, m'boy, you're a right wing gun toting white guy. You've
>>>> always defended assault weapon ownership
>>>
>>> Could you do me a solid and describe what you mean by "assault weapon"?
>>> Form, function, caliber, whatever you think will help me to understand
>>> which weapons you are talking about.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>> They are not weapons you would use for hunting or defending your home,
>> but rather military type weapons, made to kill many and quickly.
>> That's what the shooter in Las Vegas used.
>
> The Las Vegas shooter modified his weapons to be able to shoot rapidly,
> although not fully auto. All kinds of rifles can be modified in that
> way. Even pistols can be fitted with a bump stock.


That was in the US. Canada already had reasonable gun control
regulations. The anti "assault rifle" rhetoric is basically about those
nasty looking things that look like soldiers would use them. I trained
as a weapons in the reserves and had may share of showing the stuff that
was state of the art back then. I prefer not to blow my money on
expensive ammunition if I have to pay for it myself.

This was a reaction to a mass shooting that did not even involve assault
rifles or anything close to one. There was however one prohibited
firearm that had been used. That was the Mounties gun, a model of
handgun is classified as prohibited because of the short barrel.