A true law abiding and rational citizen would NEED an assault weapon (crimes, cost)

[lifeexplorer]

Sorry, what is an assault weapon? Do you mean full auto assault rifle or do you mean semi-automatic rifle that looks like an assault rifle?

Full auto assault rifle has been heavily regulated ever since National Firearm Act of 1934. It's so hard to obtain nowadays, the cost is typically in the 10K range.

If you mean AR15 type semi-automatic rifle that looks like an assault rifle, I would say that if you are rational and a believer of self-defense, you would need one, and here are the reasons:

1. It saves lives. Since someone said if it saves one child's life, it's worth the effort to ban, then if it saves one child's life, it's worth having one.

Here's the proof how it saved a child's life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuhKCiY-lu0

2. You don't want to be outgunned by the bad guys. If a typical bad guys bring pistols to rape and kill your family, what should you do? You bring a rifle. Since you can't afford full auto, a semi-auto lookalike would suffice.

Well, even they come with their crawl bar, you should still have a rifle - why pick a tool that is less effective?

3. AR15 is lightweight and easy to learn how to shoot accurately so that it's less likely you would shoot a good guy by accident.

4. Contrary to many, AR15 actually fires a less potent round than most deer rifle. It has much less penetration than a 9mm pistol round. At home, it's a fantastic choice for self-defense because you don't have to worry about a strayed bullet wonders into your neighbors house.

5. It takes 30 rd magazines so that it's hard to run out ammo even dealing with 4-6 bad guys at one time.

6. It has adjustable stock so that you and your wife or daughter can share one gun instead of two.

Watch this one and tell me in that situation, you wouldn't want an AR15 with 30 rd magazines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuhKCiY-lu0

[theunbrainwashed]

Who cares. It's been a week since the shooting. Time to move on. Get something else to talk about

[kevcrawford]

Well let's not break up the mass hysteria with facts. That's just no fun.

The simple fact is that the horrible tragedy, along with EVERY other mass shooting EVER, did NOT occur because someone said "I'm bored...oh, hey...here are some guns...let's see how many people I can kill." They were performed by sick individuals that wanted people to die. Never has there been a mass shooting like this that was performed by a sane individual.

Taking guns out of the hands of the 99.9% of GOOD people will never prevent the bad ones from obtaining them to kill. Police are great and to be commended, but they're only called AFTER a shooting has occurred. The only thing that has a chance of stopping a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Will it stop it every time? Unfortunately, no. However, you've got a hell of a better chance.

[Little-Acorn]

Most people don't even know that assault rifles are machine guns.

And most guns called "assault rifles" by ignorant gun-haters, aren't.

[k.smith904]

If only 0.1% of the population are bad guys, why does everyone else need a machine gun?

[shooting4life]

Originally Posted by k.smith904

If only 0.1% of the population are bad guys, why does everyone else need a machine gun?

If only .1% of the population are bad guys why do you want restrict the rights of 99.9% of the population that are not committing crimes?

[Little-Acorn]

Gun control: It's not about guns. It's about control.

[k.smith904]

Originally Posted by shooting4life

If only .1% of the population are bad guys why do you want restrict the rights of 99.9% of the population that are not committing crimes?

I didn't make that assertion, the op did.


Nice try, though.