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RE: Reality check: Gun Control advocates are PRO-gun!
The only gun control I am in favor of is better background checks, and limiting the rounds a gun can hold plus not being automatic. There are no reason to have automatic or near automatic guns everyday lives.
Background checks do nothing to stop black-market purchasers or thieves from getting guns. Guns and magazines can often be modified to work around limitations on magazine limits and non-automatic-ness. I don't believe the gun used in this most recent school shooting was automatic anyway.
What you are proposing is more of the same "reasonable" legislation which has failed to stop mass shootings everywhere it's been tried.
In the US, more homicides are committed with handguns (so non-automatic and low capacity) and in regions where guns are prohibited entirely (e.g. Chicago and Detroit).
Why am I not allowed to have full auto? I have plenty of military style rifles, and they are not for hunting animals. They are for, as a last resort and when all else fails, hunting people. The military and police will have full auto, and in combat (I am against standing armies and believe we should have militias made up of the whole body of people instead) full auto has a very important role.