Here is the BIG problem in the gun control debate:
You have to specify a goal. Seriously! What do the gun control advocates want? Is it less massacres plain and simple? Or, do they desire less actual assaults/murders/armed robberies nationwide, regardless of the weapon used.
I want to attack this problem with the goal of making the change that will decrease the total number of assaults/murders/armed robberies nationwide, not simply those where guns were used. If you are simply accounting for semi-auto deaths, then you wouldn't be able to count in the Oklahoma bombing deaths/injuries.
Can you see the lack of logic that many gun control advocates use? They are demonizing a particular type of weapon. If banning semi-automatic weapons would bring down the total number of assaults/murders/armed robberies nationwide (every weapon, including fists & explosives), then I can see the point of a ban.
However, when the average assault/murder/robbery is performed, do you really think the perpetrator is unloading more than a couple shots?
Let the logic in, and set your emotions aside for a moment.
Again, what would gun control advocates like to see as a result of banning semi-autos or all guns? Which would they like banned? What is their ultimate goal? Specifically. Someone please tell me?