I understand what you are saying, I do not think it would make any difference in this case....and an attack on 6-7 year old children would have turned out bad even if he used a club. I own AR's and know many others that do...and they are law abiding responsible people that are part of what makes this country strong. It always comes to mind what germany did to the Jews in WW2 and I like to believe that will never happen here....one reason it will never happen , is we have armed citizens that are never going to be slaughtered like the Jews were. I believe in Government by the people...but I also do not have a lot of trust in Politicions...one does not have to look very far to see why.
If we give up our AR's...whats next.....our hand guns, then maybe our rifles and may as well go after the shot guns too. Then we are nothing but sheep...no need to listen to the people, they are no threat to a heavily armed government. We need to take a hard look at history to see what can happen. Its not about the weapons...its about our freedom. Armed citizens are voters and listened to.....unarmed citizens are subjects. No one wants to hear that 2 million criminal actions a year are stopped by armed citizens. It is sickening what happened at that school....a gun free zone did not protect them...and our leadership does not depend on gun free zones to protect them...so why do we expect gun free zones to protect our children...same with drug free zones...it doesnt work.