Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
I knew how to operate a hunting rifle by the time I was 12, and I’m not even American.
And if you can operate a hunting rifle, you can operate an assault rifle to a reasonable degree. Not much training needed.
Nougat@fedia.io 19 hours ago
Consider, too, that the military needs every sack of meat to be able to shoot straight, load mags, clear malfunctions, clean and maintain. By extension, the light arms they use are designed to be as dead simple as possible.
shalafi@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
As someone on reddit once pointed at, the AR-15 platform is designed such that the dumbest 18-yo recruit can use it.