[circlecity]

"Prior to my boating accident I had numerous semi auto rifles in various calibers that would do the job just as effectively as the Bushmaster would. Of course they had walnuts stocks, not the scary black finish like the deadly Bushmaster."

Yep. Like the Ruger mini-14. You can buy the ultra-tactical version which looks at first glance like a scary black AR type rifle or you can buy the ranch version (walnut stock) which looks a a .22 farm gun for critters. Both have the exact same functionality (semi-auto, 5.56 caliber).

[lacrew]

This has always fascinated me with the media hysteria over the Ar15. Around 60 years ago, people could by a semi-automatic rifle from a catalog...and we didn’t have school shootings like we do today.

Soooo...perhaps something other than the ‘gun’ is the cause of all this violence.