I really don't see what the point is about
semi-automatic weapons. You apparently think it is a machine gun. It is not.
I can see banning machine guns.
But I think this incident is just an excuse along the lines of Rahm Emmanuel's call to "Not let a crisis go to waste", enabling a major liberal push for gun control. When again, that was never the real issue.
As I said 10 years ago, Americans have had guns in their homes for over 200 years, and we never saw the prevalence of violent incidents until recently. Guns are not the problem, but
something in the culture that has changed.
And I see that "something" as the removal of prayer and any mention of God in our schools, along with its replacement by a very cynical popular culture that scorns any adherence to a moral standard. Any post-Christian message of morality is sporadic and confused at best. The lack of community, and the moral standards that accompany it, breed violence as one manifestation of that. Guns or no guns.