10-02-2017, 01:35 PM
I don't think that a silencer would have made things much worse. People started running for cover when they started getting sprayed with blood from people on either side getting hit. The band even kept playing for a while after the shooting started. There are scenarios where a silencer would have made things much worse. This was not one of them. Hillary damaged her credibility by making such an illogical statement. FYI I agree with reasonable gun control laws. I don't think that acquiring a silencer on the black market or building one yourself would actually be that difficult. The deterrent is the stiff prison sentence if you get caught with one. This guy clearly didn't care about that. Plus as already mentioned silencers silence the muzzle blast only. If the bullet is subsonic that can really mean something but if the bullet is traveling 3 times the speed of sound it means almost nothing. Another way in which someone ignorant or disdainful of the physics of firearms can make their ignorance known to the general public. Again I am pretty much pro gun control. To that end people ought not to say stuff that's going to undermine that goal.