10-04-2017, 10:11 AM
Yeah, it's just common knowledge and common sense that bump stocks are an advantage in firing off as many rounds as possible in the same amount of time. So, don't worry too much about agreeing with me, F.U. ")
Increased rapid fire is the purpose of bump stocks, they don't exist to increase precision in hitting a specific target.
And, it defies common sense to suggest that the bump stocks were life-savers in this scenario. But, Biggie made a couple of sensible points in his contradictory post upthread.
If each bullet had multiple occasion to cause injury or death (regardless of hardscape, angle, elevation...), then it stands to reason that the more bullets fired, the more occasions to cause injury or death. The bump stocks enabled Paddock to fire more bullets in the same amount of time than he could have with non-modified semi-automatics which require full trigger pulls for each round.
Bump stocks aside.......58 people are dead, over 500 are injured, and likely thousands of family and friends of the direct victims are grappling with the sad reality. More victims have been publicly identified since yesterday: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...he-victims
Also, Paddock's girlfriend is back in the U.S. from the Philippines today. Hopefully, she'll have some information that's helpful to law enforcement's investigation. It won't bring anyone back to life or heal wounds, of course. But, maybe it could help in attempting to thwart or minimize copy-cats.
Increased rapid fire is the purpose of bump stocks, they don't exist to increase precision in hitting a specific target.
And, it defies common sense to suggest that the bump stocks were life-savers in this scenario. But, Biggie made a couple of sensible points in his contradictory post upthread.
(10-04-2017, 12:42 AM)BigMark Wrote: Each bullet had multiple occasion to cause injury or death.
But yeah they should be outlawed.
If each bullet had multiple occasion to cause injury or death (regardless of hardscape, angle, elevation...), then it stands to reason that the more bullets fired, the more occasions to cause injury or death. The bump stocks enabled Paddock to fire more bullets in the same amount of time than he could have with non-modified semi-automatics which require full trigger pulls for each round.
Bump stocks aside.......58 people are dead, over 500 are injured, and likely thousands of family and friends of the direct victims are grappling with the sad reality. More victims have been publicly identified since yesterday: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...he-victims
Also, Paddock's girlfriend is back in the U.S. from the Philippines today. Hopefully, she'll have some information that's helpful to law enforcement's investigation. It won't bring anyone back to life or heal wounds, of course. But, maybe it could help in attempting to thwart or minimize copy-cats.