Oh no! MoR poWeR for civilians
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Mass shooters generally aren't targeting people in bulletproof vests. I don't really care what caliber a mass shooter uses, it's largely irrelevant. As I'm sure you all know, Virginia Tech was done with pistols; 9mm...and even .22LR.
The gun is not the important part, the training is. Some shooter could attack with an $8,000 SPEAR and fail, someone else could attack with a .22LR AK or something and kill a bunch of people. Not the best example, as I was going for the extreme, but someone could do a lot of damage with 9mm pistols for sub-$200 (or at least they were a couple years ago), or a sub-$1000 5.56 AR.
I'm really not concerned about well off civilians being able to purchase a civilian version of a military rifle. Also, battle rifles have been available to civilians forever already. No one cares. Heck, for the price of a SPEAR you could even purchase a legal machine gun, although that's the extreme low end for that, I think. And that's not even getting into modifications or anything.
Freaking out about a SPEAR just shows how clueless anti-gunners are.
Now, if we could get some M250s, that would be pretty cool...
Journalists believe that more kinetic energy per shot means it takes away more of your HP when you get shot with it, because their only knowledge of guns comes from Calladooty. They don't understand concepts like recoil, penetration, over penetration, noise, etc. They think that getting a more powerful gun is like getting a new sword in an RPG: stronger weapon = faster killing.
There's simply no thought to the actual physics involved.