Automatic weapons are not easy to get. I'm sure that if Loughner applied for a class 3 tax stamp, he would have been denied. Even then, he might have slid through. He didn't use an automatic weapon, he used a semi-auto.
Cars and trucks make dandy weapons, they have, in the wrong hands taken out more lives then a single hand gun. Thousands every year. A few cars have taken out 20-30 people at a time by running into street fairs or parades. Strange but Gay Parades have not yet had that problem.
A single oil lamp in the wrong hands burned down Chicago when Mrs. Murphy's cow kicked it over.
A dozen men, with just box cutters, 3 hijacked planes, 3000+ lives lost.
Guns are like fire. Both are necessary for the protection and lives of the worlds people---in the right hands. Put either in the wrong hands and devastation happens
Family's large and small have one or two members that are all ways in trouble for one thing or another. Not only do we have to protect ourselves from strangers but at times our own kin folk.
Fire arms have been around as a protection for people since they were invented. There would not be a USA without the fire arm for hunting for food and protection. The 6 gun revolver was a peace keeper and won the west.
I as an American demand my right to continue my American tradition and right by the COTUS.
I have great fear the anti-protection people will now demand stronger laws against personal protection.They may gloom onto this incident to cause us peace keeping folks unarmed.
So sad what happend but, when Lincoln was shot, Kennedy and his brother also there was no hue and cry until Brady and Regan were shot .
This incidence is going to stir up the sleeping Libs that wish to disarm us.
