I suspect they'll end the sale of AR types of weapons in the very near future. Years ago all we had were hunting rifles and shotguns...now every little snotty nosed brat has an AR to play with. I have no use for them. I can't shoot a bird with one and shooting a deer with one is an over kill.
If the little brat that killed 20 in El Paso had used a handgun or rifle, I suspect the number killed would have been much less.
You don't want one, I get that.
As for handguns, there is no guarantee that the body count would have been any less, and could have been more. It's more concealable, and reloading is easy. Magazines are lighter, too, enabling even more ammo to be carried. BTW, the AK-47 and the AR-15
ARE rifles.
Shooting a deer with a standard AR-15, 5.56 ammo is forbidden by law in my state. Prairie dogs and other varmints, including coyotes are fair game, but a deer requires (by law) a round of at least .25 caliber.
A multitude of other variants built on the same Stoner (AR) concept work just fine, in higher calibers. You can take a deer with an AK-47, if you choose. You can even lug around a 30 round magazine full of ammo if you want, but you'd better not shoot more than your tag limit (1). Fish and Game here get upset about that.
But because you don't want one, the rest of the country has to bend to your likes?
That isn't how Rights work.
Yesterday, somewhere between 9,999,999 and 4,999,999 Ar-15s were not used to slaughter people. I can't find any figures on the number of semiautomatic AK variants there are in the US, but the vast majority of those were apparently well behaved as well.
Still, in the off chance that some mob may come down my street, I don't want to jack in 5 and have to reload. Chances are with a mob, that they won't notice the damage and you'll be overrun--and oddly enough, all the Leftists/Liberals have been pushing for just that--mob violence, and during the last Administration, they even got some (Baltimore and Fergusson). Don't think that couldn't visit where you live.
I don't want a Ferrari. Got no use for one. Should they be prohibited? How about Hummel figurines? Beanie Babies? Lalique glassware? Rolex watches (after all, your dumb phone can keep track of time. You don't even need a smartphone). Should they be banned?
You decide what you want, and I'll stand up for your Right to do so, but kindly don't stand in between me and my Right to own what I want.
Two firearms out of millions were used in those incident. Two. For that millions of people who have done nothing wrong should suffer consequences?
Oh, Hell NO!