Obviously many of us disagree with you on what constitutes “very low numbers.” 4 out of the 5 deadliest mass shootings in modern American history were committed with AR-15 style rifles, with dozens of people killed over short periods of time by lone gunmen. Due to the insanely high numbers of normal day-today shooting victims in the US every year maybe you just see these events as a rounding error, not worth responding to. But these are real people’s lives.
You’re explicitly saying that responding to these terrible tragedies by suggesting that people should have to demonstrate some sort of reason to own these demonstrably efficient killing machines is not “rational.” Would you say the same if people wanted similar justification for ownership of any other consumer product that had killed dozens of people at a time on multiple occasions over the last few years?
