Is an "assault rifle" necessary for mass shootings?

[Diego in Seattle]

M-1 Garand Musket was a great rifle. I fired Expert with it in the Army.

FTFY

[Dinsdale]

M-1 Garand Musket was a great rifle. I fired Expert with it in the Continental Army.

FTFY

[Wolfman]

I'll pass on the python hunt. Funny thing firing the M-1 as a left hander. Shell casings plinking off my helmet and the clip making a distinct sound when it came out. PIA was when we had to wear gas masks. The Army issue back in the early 60's had a canister on the left side. I once fired an anti-tank grenade using the launcher device you put on the end of the rifle and the "blank" round used for that. It was cool, except, BIG STUPID DECISION--I fired it off shoulder leaning back in a foxhole. Felt like someone whacked me with a baseball bat. I was sore for a while. Lesson learned.

[Rooster]

Back blast area clear! Those are words Screwy loves to hear. Every. Single. Time.

[Derron]

I heard the same bitch about the change from the .45 to the 9mm handgun. Again, I'm not expert on this stuff. But it is what I heard, relentlessly.

The first guy through the door when the soldiers were kicking down doors in Iraq usually had a 9 mm going for a low sweep. The hajis were all jacked up on meth and they said you could put 4 rounds center mass with those POS Berretas and those hajis kept coming at them. I knew some guys who ended up with some .45's and they said one and down with those.

[Rooster]

:doh:
I thought the Dem party was the party with all the smarty pants intellectuals who use science to, you know, prove stuff. Yet they cannot seem to understand the basics of a rifle that has been around for longer than many of them have been alive.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/01/wasse ... -magazine/
and
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/01/marti ... isted-gun/

What gives?