I'm still going to maintain my (recently remade) Tumblr blog, before anyone asks that. Same username. I'm simply curious what questions you all might have for me, since I see people from Reddit and Voat doing this thing.
Tumblr might be pretty different from any of these sights, but it's worth a shot.
Now I hate to be that guy but, usually when someone has a view like that it stems from a lack of education on the subject (I have plenty of things I don't know about this just happens to be one I am hugely interested in). Usually a lot of media propaganda is used to get these views.
There were already automatic weapons back then, contrary to popular belief. See the Belton Flinklock. Not even just semi-automatic. It was an automatic rifle. Plus cannons were allowed to be carried by private citizens.
Another thing is, in American guns save more lives each year than firearms (Look at the defensive usages of firearms in america) secondly gun crime has been trending downward in america for quite sometime. Where in countries where guns are banned (Australia and the UK) things like rapes, stabbings, and even gun crimes are trending upward.
Think mass shootings are an issue? Mass shootings barely make the statistics here in america, you are talking about a small fraction of the violent crimes. In-fact the terrible city of Detroit had the same amount of murders as america had mass shooting deaths (Same meaning within 5 percentage points)
Point being the war on guns works as well as the war on drugs. It's stupid and everyone winds up upset and things just get worse.
I can understand single shot at a time (or at all) simple pistols and rifles, but even revolvers need to get the boot in my book. much less semi-automatic or automatic weapons.
That's what the US founders assumed as single shot weapons. Hell, they assumed flintlocks! They had no way to predict those sorts of engineering advances.