…..that’s not paranoid, it common sense, and both sides understand it.
The actual specifics of this case indicate that the same amount of carnage could have been achieved with a handgun rather than an AR. He had close to an hour to do whatever he wanted. So why are you focusing on AR’s?
I’ll tell you. Because going for the all out gun ban is still a bridge too far, so you’ll go for what you can get, and exploit the new chink in the armor of 2nd Amendment Rights the next chance you get down the road.
This particular massacre could have been accomplished with any gun (in fact a knife could have done it in the time he had though the cowardly police may have been less scared to act if they didn’t think that he had a gun).
The fact that you are targeting the AR’s in this case where the crime did not require them makes others suspicious of your incremental motive.
I’ve never bought a gun, and I don’t belong to the NRA, but I can see the concerns of 2nd Amendment advocates.