He didn’t exactly need accuracy when there was a sea of targets in front of him, especially if his objective was to hit as many of them as possible before they could disperse.
The reason why it was the deadliest shooting is because the shitstain was using a bump stock
No, he was looking over a massive crowd of people with a rifle. He may have killed more people without a bump stock, given the difficulty it causes for accuracy. Saying it is a settled fact that it led to the deaths is just not true.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 6 months ago
aidan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But he continued to hit people while they were dispersing
24_at_the_withers@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean, he didn’t really have much of a problem with accuracy - he fired a total of 1058 rounds, and those rounds or shrapnel from them injured 413 different people. Of course, many people received more than a single gunshot wound. He killed 58 (later 60) in ten minutes of shooting – effectively one person every 10 seconds. I think it would be difficult for a single person to injure or kill more from where he was standing with any weapon short of an RPG.
aidan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think short of somehow knocking down a build that would make it more difficult because of the very slow reload speed.
And a semi-auto rifle can fire much faster than that without a bumpstock