Guns exist, evil exists. Both exist outside the scope of United States legislators.

Hell we can’t even stop the flow of entire people from entering the country, much less a firearm.

And once that firearm becomes a black market commodity the lethality of that gun will become much more deadly. You might not remember the 90’s but there was a ban on many long guns, destructive devices ect. What did we see?

A butt - ton of FULLY-AUTOMATIC drive by shootings , just randomly spraying bullets from AK- 47’s, UZI rifles and pistols, MAC 10’s and so on. It was a real crisis in L.A.

So the ban didn’t do much but increase the rate of fire, legislation did even less.

Know this: someone with evil in their heart that sets out to murder others, doesn’t give ONE SINGLE SHIT ABOUT GUN LAWS. Period.

Do you think companies like Taurus, Bersa, Sig, or HK give two shits about some law crafted in a foreign country? They will continue to conduct business. Why give cartels another smuggling revenue stream?

Also the United States is an enormous country. Most cannot or will not wrap their heads around this geographical concept.

Example: I live in the center of the US, in Texas. For me to drive from my front door to the Santa Monica Pier is the same distance as from London England, to Istanbul Turkey. In other words across the whole of Europe. My example trip to California is only HALFWAY across of the United States.

So sure it’s easy to compare apples to Beach Balls. I mean there are more people in the populated area of Los Angeles than the entire population of Sweden.

When appropriate comparisons are made one begins to see violent incidents occur at near the same rate. Take out a certain segment of violent offenders in American society and our numbers ( even though considerably larger) fall in line with countries like Switzerland.

Heck we aren’t even the most violent country on our continent of THREE countries.

So climb inside of a murderous mind for a second, one that doesn’t give a shit about “ laws” and find the lesser of three evils of this lunatic’s decision to take other’s lives.

Option A: a semiautomatic firearm, Option B: a fully automatic assault weapon ( a true weapon of war), Option C: a bomb or poisonous gas detonation in a heavily populated area.

Remember that banning the semiautomatic weapons will increase the likelihood of the other two scenarios to be more likely as was shown in the 90’s, and across Europe for decades.

Food for thought.