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The Las Vegas bump-stock shooting was one of the deadliest in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

The fully-automatic question comes up because of pragmatism and practicality. The guy used 1000+ bullets to fire upon a crowd. You physically cannot do that if you only had semiautomatic.




I wonder if this might have been more deadly if he had fired fewer shots but deliberately aimed each of them at a person. The percentage of wounded survivors in that shooting was atypical.


That's true, and that's what I was thinking of when I said "few" instead of "none."

Luckily very few mass shooters have plans that are so well thought out.




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