"Assault Weapons" Ban Would Not Have Stopped Santa Fe Mass Shooting
The national campaign to ban high-capacity magazine, semi-automatic rifles, loosely known as "assault weapons," took pause in the mass shooting in Santa Fe, Texas last Friday, when a gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 more using weapons considered ordinary and useful for hunting and basic self-defense.
The shooting bolstered arguments by Second Amendment advocates who say that banning assault-style rifles would do little to solve the problem of mass shootings.
Weapons commonly known as military-style "assault weapons" are weapons which fire as fast as the shooter can pull the trigger, for as long as there are rounds in the magazine. The Santa Fe shooter used a Remington 870 sporting shotgun, commonly used to hunt birds, deer, and for shooting skeet, and a .38 revolver.
Houston KPRC 2 reported:
"In the Santa Fe High School shooting, restrictions on bump stocks, assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and more strident background checks would not have affected suspect Dimitrios Pagourtzis' ability to obtain weapons. According to police, he came to school Friday morning with a shotgun and pistol that had been legally purchased by his father."
The Washington Post ran a piece: "'You can do this with anything': Santa Fe shooting suspect’s choice of guns complicates debate over assault rifles." In the piece the observation was made:
"Friday’s shooting at Santa Fe High School, which left 10 dead, was carried out with a pistol and a shotgun — firearms that even gun-control advocates generally regard as utilitarian."...READ ARTICLE >>> https://hubpages.com/politics/Santa-Fe-School-Shooter-Used-No-High-Capacity-Semi-Automatic-Weapons-to-do-Great-Damage