I don't care how he got the weapon alone...I'm more concerned with the victims, their families and the senselessness of this tragedy than on whether or not he obtained his instruments of death legally or not...but let's stipulate that it does matter, what then?
Legal guns and illegal guns kill people the same way:
Weapon is loaded from magazine,
Trigger is pulled, forcing the hammer to move,
Hammer drops and strikes the firing pin,
Pin moves forward towards the Cartridge ("bullet" to most),
Firing Pin strikes cartridge primer,
This now creates explosion from gun powder in the cartridge,
Explosion propels the bullet from the cartridge,
Bullet travels along the (mostly) straight line of aim at time of shot.
The bullet takes the forward momentum of the explosion and the slide takes the reverse.
Gun recycles for the next shot...
Legal or illegal, that is how you fire a gun in a general sense.
The problem we have, and the issue we CAN fix without too much trouble is the time from shot one to shot two and so on without reloading required...
High capacity magazines are an abomination. They serve only one legitimate purpose - fire as many bullets as possible in the shortest interval between shots and maximize the killing potential of the weapon. The caliber of the ammunition is also a concern, but less of one than the numbers on shooting...
End high capacity magazines.
Require licensing to CARRY and UTILIZE a gun, period.
Prevent people who should not have guns, from ever again getting a new weapon.
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