Sooner or later, simply based on the law of averages and 280 million citizens, there is going to be a horrendous "assault rifle massacre".
It may be the result of a deranged individual, an Islamikazi terror cell, or it may even be set up with a little help from some group which would stand to benefit from the resulting laws and the chaos and mayhem which would ensue.
At least it does in my novel.
Think back to when we were kids and gun control meant "good aim".
LOl...seems like another world now doesn't it?
We strip everyone's right because certain segments of society simply can't behave themselves...from urban gangbangers/predators to teenaged suburban outcasts at school.
Hell, when I was in high school we kept rifles in our cars in hunting season on campus and the same in college in our dorm rooms during season....and we got loaded to the gills on a variety of intoxicants and never shot anyone. Nobody gave it a second glance at Ole Miss in 1976 to see a guy walking into his dorm room with a guncase in cammos in the fall or winter.