You are correct that a race car driven at on a public road in traffic is inherently more than a VW bug if both are driven by an average driver. But the same isn't true of a semiautomatic vs a shotgun in the hands of the average citizen. It is the shotgun which is inherently more dangerous in close quarters or crowded conditions. The very conditions which are likely to prevail in an active mass shooting situation. Not to mention, the vast majority of guns owned by citizens are semiautomatics. While it is the rare citizen who owns a race car.

So it is YOUR analogy which is the illogical one.

You realize that sheriff's offices in most rural areas rarely see "hard right wing s*********t nut jobs". In the rural areas of my state of AZ you are far more likely to come across Muslim variety terrorists. There have been several apprehended in my county who crossed from Mexico. I've not heard of any apprehensions of s*********ts in my county. But the sheriffs are generally very welcoming of right wing armed citizens!!!! In fact, on multiple occasions I have had sheriff deputies or CBP agents who have come out to my place tell me I should not just rely on my German Shepherds but really should by a gun. Because of semi paralysis and episodic blindness connected to my seizures (now under control), I was reluctant to keep a gun.

https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2019/01/07/the-terror-threat-on-the-southern-border/

Actually Treyvon would argue...

Had the little mexican cop wannabe Zimmerman not been armed Treyvon would not have gotten shot, had our little over aggressive fool simply followed the police dispatcher's orders and not followed him as he was instructed to wait for police like he was told to do, there would have been no altercation.

I would say someone who can't follow simple instructions like we are on it, cops on the way, they will handle it, do not follow, is not qualified to be carrying a firearm.

Perm, I don't have any reservations putting my shooting sk**ls up against world class shooters.

Let me tell you of a little happening while visiting friends for dinner.

They have long road driving into their place..while sitting at the table, a unfamiliar van came bouncing up the drive.

I asked the lady of the house, do you know these people...she answered no.

Her husband was outside retrieving his briefcase from his vehicle, I stepped out and ducked behind a tree, the doors flew open on the van and a few men started piling out.

I peeked around the tree and asked them what they needed..one asshole said they were looking for a certain unknown person.

Just about then the owner was coming out of his briefcase with iron.

These guys were starting to spread out and with the firepower that I came out from behind the tree with, convinced these home invaders to quickly leave.

If it would have been a single shot 22 or a Bullbiden defensive ball point pen, maybe they would have challenged our resolve.

Obama believed in negotiating peace by backing in a bending over.

Ronald Reagan believed being well armed is the deterrent.

I choose Reagan's style.

Here is an example of the facts being distorted to a degree that rendition has no resemblance to what happened.

Pull up transcripts of the 911 call by Zimmerman, before there was any contact he had been told not to follow, to keep his distance, not to worry about him getting away, police would handle it.

Obviously Zimmerman did not take those instructions, he continued to follow and approached Treyvon in order to hold him for the police.

And Zimmerman may have been on the losing end of a fight, interesting considering he was known to be a fight contestant. But had he listened to dispatch and stayed away this did not need to happen.

It's hard to have a dialog with people when there are two versions of the t***h, it isn't that hard to break it down, and the 911 call does it. Zimmerman refused to back off and leave Treyvon alone, and as it turned out his dad lived in the neighborhood, he had every right to be there.

Once again we had another mass shooting involving a semi-automatic weapon. So what's the solution? Well, we can start by banning the weapon of choice--the semi-automatic weapon. Do that, and we at least give people a chance. And notice, I am not saying ban all guns just the ones responsible for all the mass slayings. This leaves bolt actions, pumps, and revolvers to satisfy our second amendment requirement--all of which are better than when the second amendment was written.

This leaves the question of how we enforce such a law and as I stated before--a fine of 10,000 and a couple of years in jail will lend to them being turned in in droves. Of course, the most radical right wing nuts will hold out but there is no argument that outweighs the common good of our country and that's what it comes down to...the common good.