We need to make thorough background checks and mental evaluations required in every state. Beyond that I don’t think any restrictions on the weapons themselves are necessary or particularly effective. The guns need to be kept out of reach of the kind of people who will commit atrocities, not out of reach of law abiding citizens. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
I know most everyone here disagrees with that sentiment, but that’s how I figure it. Pretty much every shooting that has occurred has happened because there was a neglect for making sure the wrong person doesn’t get the gun.
On another note, if they can’t get guns, they’ll make homemade explosive devices out of fertilizer and blow the school up. If they can’t do that, they’ll take the steak knife from the kitchen and stab some people.
Another problem is the media coverage being way too specific.
From 2016: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2016/05/04/mediashootings
name a use for an automatic riffle? other than having a gun fetish.
There are uses for fertilizer and steak knives. and it is hard to buy fertilizer in bulk now. because, you know, it makes sense to try to limit people having access to high kill weapons.