Tell me how important automatic, semi-automatic, and assault rifles are for people to own in the 21st century. Go ahead, please, tell me
Here’s a list from Wikipedia of mass shootings in the US. Read it and then go back to the question above.
A
2010 ABB plant shootings
Alrosa Villa shootings
Appalachian School of Law shooting
2010 Appomattox shootings
Larry Gene Ashbrook
Atlantis Plastics shooting
1993 Aurora shooting
2012 Aurora shooting
2012 Azana Spa shootings
B
Bard College at Simon’s Rock shooting
Mark O. Barton
2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers
D.C. sniper attacks
Bethel Regional High School shooting
Binghamton shootings
William Ray Bonner shooting spree
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack
Carl Robert Brown
Brown’s Chicken massacre
Burnette Chapel shooting
C
California State University, Fullerton massacre
Camden massacre
Capitol Hill massacre
2007 Carnation murders
Carthage nursing home shooting
2016 Cascade Mall shooting
Chardon High School shooting
Charleston church shooting
2015 Chattanooga shootings
1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters
2016 Citronelle homicides
Clackamas Town Center shooting
Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego)
Cleveland Elementary School shooting (Stockton)
2017 Clovis library shooting
2012 College Station, Texas shooting
2009 Collier Township shooting
Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting
2007 Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings
Columbine High School massacre
2017 Congressional baseball shooting
Connecticut Lottery
2011 Copley Township shooting
Covina massacre
Crandon, Wisconsin shooting
Cupertino quarry shooting
D
Daingerfield church shooting
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
Laurie Dann
Lynwood Drake
E
Edmond post office shooting
1997 Empire State Building shooting
2003 Ennis shooting
ESL shooting
F
1986 FBI Miami shootout
2009 Fort Hood shooting
2014 Fort Hood shooting
2017 Fort Lauderdale airport shooting
Fountain Valley massacre
Freeman High School shooting
FreightCar America shooting
2017 Fresno shootings
Frontier Middle School shooting
G
Geneva County massacre
1946 Georgia lynching
Golden Dragon massacre
Goleta postal facility shootings
2011 Grand Rapids mass murder
H
Hartford Distributors shooting
Heath High School shooting
2016 Hesston shooting
Hi-Fi murders
2013 Hialeah shooting
1965 Highway 101 sniper attack
1996 Honolulu hostage crisis
2015 Harris County, Texas shooting
I
2011 IHOP shooting
Indianapolis mass murder
2014 Isla Vista killings
K
2016 Kalamazoo shootings
Kansas City massacre
Kelayres massacre
Kirkwood City Council shooting
Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting
L
2015 Lafayette shooting
2009 Lakewood shooting
Lane Bryant shooting
2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting
Lex Street massacre
Lindhurst High School shooting
Little Rock nightclub shooting
Lockheed Martin shooting
Lorenz-Sirloin Stockade murders
2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting
2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting
Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
Luby’s shooting
M
Madison High School shooting
Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting
1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting
Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre
Utah prisoner of war massacre
2012 Minneapolis workplace shooting
2017 Mississippi shootings
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania shootings
2016 Mukilteo shooting
N
Northern Illinois University shooting
O
Oakland Elementary School shooting
Oikos University shooting
Old Salisbury Road shooting
Olean High School shooting
Orangeburg massacre
2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
2017 Orlando shooting
P
Palm Sunday massacre (homicide)
John Felton Parish
Pearcy murders
Pearl High School shooting
Penske shootings
2016 Pike County, Ohio, shootings
2009 shooting of Pittsburgh police officers
2017 Plano shooting
James Edward Pough
R
Ramon Salcido murder spree
Terry Ratzmann
Red Lake shootings
Will Reynolds
Rosemary Anderson High School shooting
Ross Township Municipal Building shooting
S
1991 Sacramento hostage crisis
2009 Saipan shooting
2015 San Bernardino attack
San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre
2017 Sandy attack
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
2013 Santa Monica shooting
Santana High School shooting
2011 Seal Beach shooting
2012 Seattle cafe shooting spree
2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
Sylvia Seegrist
Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino
Michael Silka
2013 South Valley homicides
Southern California Edison shooting
2014 Harris County, Texas shooting
St. Joseph courthouse shooting
Standard Gravure shooting
T
Tacoma Mall shooting
Thurston High School shooting
Trang Dai massacre
Trolley Square shooting
2011 Tucson shooting
2015 Tyrone shooting
U
Umpqua Community College shooting
2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting
University of Texas massacre
University of Texas tower shooting
UPS shooting in San Francisco
V
Chai Vang
Virginia Tech shooting
W
2015 Waco shootout
Waddell, Arizona Buddhist temple shooting
Wah Mee massacre
Wakefield massacre
Washington Navy Yard shooting
2012 Webster, New York shooting
2017 Weis Markets shooting
Wendy’s massacre
Coy Wayne Wesbrook
West Nickel Mines School shooting
Westroads Mall shooting
Wichita Massacre
Wickliffe Middle School shooting
2016 Wilkinsburg shooting
Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting
X
Xerox murders

Source: Wikipedia