"Americans need to decide whether owning and selling these killing machines — designed for military use and stripped of their fully automatic capabilities for civilian sales — is worth the price we pay in added death and injury every time a psychopath targets civilians."
Would the illogical and illiberal DP op-ed staff prefer bombs to AR15s? As you note, we are dealing with psychopaths here and psychopaths, not the tools they choose, are who is responsible for every added death and injury. While indeed tragic, the "solution" to the problem isn't to be found in infringing upon the rights of 300 million individuals because a psychopath is included somewhere in there. Freedom isn't safe; never has been, never will be. If you want to put an end to the predictable results of identity politics then you stop practicing identity politics irrespective of how successful it has been in getting members of your team elected. This op-ed is a prime example of what has to stop to end the carnage.