Gunsplaining to conservatives

[Straw Man]

41. You don't know what a straw man argument is, apparently.

It involves misrepresenting your interlocutor's position. I haven't done that. I've corrected your faulty or incomplete information. That's a whole different thing.

The assault rifle, from its inception, was designed to be easy to fire, it is. The M16/AR15 especially.

The assault rifle was designed to be a select-fire rifle with a detachable magazine. The 5.56 round was adopted in the '60s to make assault rifles easier to fire and to enable soldiers to carry more ammo. The Europeans persisted with .308/7.62 assault rifles for 30 more years. Somehow it didn't seem to be that much of a problem.

I stand by the fact that larger and heavier centerfire rounds have penetration that exceeds that of the .223/5.56. It's elementary ballistics. The faster, lighter rounds penetrate less but do more tissue damage. Paddock used both .223 and .308 rifles -- nine of the rifles found in Paddock's room were .308, and eight of those were semi-auto.

https://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-shooting/list-guns-and-evidence-from-las-vegas-shooter-stephen-paddock

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/las-vegas-horror-stephen-paddock-ended-massacre-with-his-tiniest-weapon/news-story/b786741b6ae8f7d657164999f02d96c0?nk=9e364eec3a824298877883cde532743d-1535692942

Unless the autopsy doctors were recovering intact bullets -- which is highly unlikely -- they couldn't know for certain which rounds made which wounds. Could Paddock have accomplished his spree with .30-caliber weapons? Of course he could, because he did -- at least partially.

When mass shootings are done by re-loaders, we'll worry about that then.

Paddock purchased some of his ammunition from a reloader.

https://www.ammoland.com/2018/02/charges-file-man-sold-stephen-paddock-ammunition/

Shall we worry about it now?

I repeat: Your premise doesn't hold water.