AR-15 has been the buzzword being thrown around after the Orlando shooting. It is of course, the same rifle that the media is quick to point out, the same rifle used by the Sandy Hook shooter and the Aurora shooter. Another buzzword attached to this debate is “assault rifles.”
So the debate now revolves around banning “assault rifles” and AR-15 has been labelled as an automatic rifle. Right after the shooting, democrats chanted “where’s the bill?” They demanded that Republicans take responsibility for the atrocities and pass laws to regulate these rifles.
However this line of calling a ban on assault rifles only harms the liberal cause in reducing gun violence. This only allows room for Republicans to point out how out of touch they are from the technicalities of guns.
