I actually thought about this in-depth the day after it happened, when they came out and said it was an AR-15. Come to think of it, I should've posted a thread about it. One thing you learn in the military is how guns work. There are a lot of misconceptions about them that people pick up from movies and games and shit - like how, apparently, pistols are accurate weapons. Or that you can survive standing behind a discharging rpg/sfw. Or Fallout 4s weird interpretation of how compensators work. Or Battlefield 4s insistence that you need to calculate bullet drop with sniper rifles with targets well inside even a couple hundred yards - a failed attempt at being 'realistic' which actually made the game even more unrealistic. A lot of people seem to think that the AR-15 is an automatic rifle. Like what? Not that this gun was an AR-15, but the point stands when people say we need to ban AR-15s (I saw this on a liberal meme the other day, about how an ar-15 shot over 100 people or some shit and should be banned)