The gun is a force multiplier. Samuel Colt's revolver was given the name "The Equalizer" because Marty McFly cannot other wise stand up to Buford Tannen.
Saw an old R. Lee Ermy episode, talking about rifles through the ages. It was unfortunately pretty terrible, glossed over lots of stuff, and mainly was so that Ermy could entertain us, it wasn't a real good documentary, I learned almost nothing.
But when he got to the AR (M16) he mentioned a few things about it and one of them was that it was a force multiplier because it'd only wound the enemy, which meant that not only was he disabled, but also you tied up two more guys, to help him off the battlefield and care for him, so that's why he called it a force multiplier. Which I had never heard before, and it made we wonder how if the M16 (an AR) only wounded people then why in mass shootings with an AR do so many people die? You'd think if it only wounded that there'd be more survivors of mass shootings with ARs.
And the only other thing was that story about troops being found dead in Vietnam, with their M16 flipping cleaning kits out. The gun was malfunctioning and they had to get out the cleaning kit to try to clear a jam or a casing or whatever it was. I guess one of the things was that the gas system wasn't water tight like it is today, and that was one big problem. I mean at least the M14 was reliable, it was the wrong gun for a lot of Vietnam, but at least it worked. I'd rather get killed because my gun was the wrong gun, than that my gun just didn't work at all. What a nightmare.
They learned a lot in Vietnam, on how to fine-tune the AR. But that was the wrong way to develop your new product. They should have learned all that stuff without having to send home body bags, that's an inhumane and un-American, frankly, way to do things.