• aidan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The reason why it was the deadliest shooting is because the shitstain was using a bump stock

    No, he was looking over a massive crowd of people with a rifle. He may have killed more people without a bump stock, given the difficulty it causes for accuracy. Saying it is a settled fact that it led to the deaths is just not true.

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      8 months ago

      He didn’t exactly need accuracy when there was a sea of targets in front of him, especially if his objective was to hit as many of them as possible before they could disperse.

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      8 months ago

      I mean, he didn’t really have much of a problem with accuracy - he fired a total of 1058 rounds, and those rounds or shrapnel from them injured 413 different people. Of course, many people received more than a single gunshot wound. He killed 58 (later 60) in ten minutes of shooting – effectively one person every 10 seconds. I think it would be difficult for a single person to injure or kill more from where he was standing with any weapon short of an RPG.

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        8 months ago

        kill more from where he was standing with any weapon short of an RPG.

        I think short of somehow knocking down a build that would make it more difficult because of the very slow reload speed.

        kill more from where he was standing with any weapon short of an RPG.

        And a semi-auto rifle can fire much faster than that without a bumpstock