1. If we had a magic wand and could "disappear" all guns owned by civilians tomorrow, would that stop mass murderers from murdering other people?
2. If not, then do the anti-2A people even have a valid argument to make?
3. Do we need to acquiesce to people who ignore available evidence and falsely claim their illogical ideas have merit, however sincerely held their ideas happen to be, when it's painfully obvious that they're just irrational, fearful, and/or just plain ignorant?
4. Are people who have had their children murdered with cars, bombs, poisons, or any other implement but firearms "less upset" about their children being murdered with those other implements?
5. Do all the bodies of the people who were murdered with implements other than firearms not count as "evidence" that banning firearms is just silly?
6. Why the fixation on firearms murders, especially murders committed with so-called "assault weapons"?
7. How many murders using that category of implements occur in America compared to the number of people murdered with handguns and long guns of any other description?
8. Are you more or less "dead" when killed by a firearm of some other description than "assault weapon"?
9. Since something like 250 of the 10,000 to 15,000 murders committed with firearms every year are committed with what existing laws define as "assault weapons", is it probable that banning such weapons would have little meaningful impact on firearms murder rates and figures?
10. Why aren't we talking about banning "assault cars" or "assault trucks", "assault pressure cookers", and "assault chemicals" from the pool supply store?
Anyone who has passing familiarity with the evidence at hand who honestly answers the ten questions I've posed in a rational (numerical) versus emotional manner is also forced to accept the conclusion that any laws that confiscate automatic and semi-automatic rifles will have little to no impact on murders committed with firearms in the US.
Since everyone likes to compare the US to Europe so often, France already has strict "gun control" laws in place and those laws had zero impact on recent terrorist activities. The muslim terrorists brought their fully automatic AK-47's with them, illegally, and murdered more than double the number of people that our home-grown Las Vegas nutcase managed to murder. Although 9 people committed the Paris attacks versus just one in Las Vegas, the body count is what it is and terrorism is on the rise here and elsewhere in the world. So yeah, that's a decent comparison between the "gun crazy" US and "gun free" (obviously not) Europe when it comes to mass murder. Such acts occur more frequently in the US because we have no effective mental health care system and regressives love defenseless victims so they set up "mass murder" zones they like to call "gun free" zones around the US, including the hotel and concert location in Vegas, in their homage to Dr. Kevorkian.
More recently, a Japanese man named Satoshi Uematsu killed 19 people using a kitchen knife, so let's ban kitchen knives while we're at it. If it saves just one life, then it's worth it, or at least that's the silly drivel coming from the simple minded liberal regressives around this country. Something about their anti-logic reeks of bovine excrement. It's time for them to put the pipe down and stop smoking dope. It's affecting their ability to count.