Why focusing on AR-15s
for mass shootings is dumb

By Tom Knighton. Apr 16, 2023

In the wake of Louisville, we are once against finding ourselves having to talk about the AR-15. Once again, anti-gun forces are focusing on this particular rifle to advance their 'gun control' agenda. In their minds, if we banned this gun, mass shootings will just…I don't know, evaporate away.

Yet as the Heritage Foundation's Amy Swearer noted on Twitter earlier this week, mass shootings don't need a so-called assault weapon, just someone interested in killing people.

I suggest you go and look at the whole thread because as Swearer notes, there are a lot of mass murders where the killers didn't use an AR-15 or even something that required a "high-capacity" magazine. Kind of like this one:

Nearly 100 years later, also in California, a Chinese immigrant would again try to kill as many people of Chinese descent as possible. Instead of a lever-action rifle, he'd use a literal "assault pistol" to fire into a dance hall on the Lunar New Year. He'd also kill 11.

And then there's the man who, in 1949, killed 13 and wounded 3 more during a mass public shooting in Camden, NJ. He used a single 9 mm Luger handgun which, at the time, would've had a factory standard 8-round box magazine. .....