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Why are autos any different? With a pistol, without modifications, one can only shoot one shot at a time. If there are more than one perpetrator, say coming at you from different angles, wouldn't you rather be able to spray the area in an arc?
I just think autos are a little excessive for self defense. Yes, it would be nice to have it for the situation that you described, but I wouldn't feel right having an auto in my house. I'll stick with my pistol for defense, and my rifle for hunting.
No, people protecting themselves through either shooting a perp or scaring them away by producing a gun.
Got data? Sounds like a really difficult thing to produce hard numbers or even soft estimates on.
Also, let me say that I'm pretty liberal and think that guns are generally a bad idea all the way around. However, since we can't wish them out of existence altogether, I DO support the right of private citizens to own and carry firearms.
However, when I see a story like this, I don't think "That's awesome!" I think it's a pretty horrible commentary on the wild west nature of our streets. I'm glad the good guy one, but find the whole thing pretty sickening.
I'm sure the lefties will just hate that the good guy won this gun fight. If it wasn't for the right to own a gun the good guy here would have been dead. Instead....the worthless idiots got every bit of what they deserved.
"Pizza Hut delivery man, 43-year-old Christopher Miller, says he showed up at the home at 10:30 p.m. and 17-year-old Paul Sturgill was standing on the sidewalk waiting for him. Officials say soon after Miller got out of the car, two other men ran at him from the woods.
When Miller started running away, that’s when authorities say Sturgill continually tried beating him in the face. Miller, who has a concealed weapons permit, says he pulled out .45 caliber handgun that he had in his fanny pack and shot Sturgill in his chest.
Sturgill was taken to the hospital where he later died."
To Langlen, are you aware that it takes a Class III permit to own an automatic weapon in this country? Do you have any idea how hard it is
to get a Class III license? Only a select few can pass the requirements AND pay the fees required. They are the Really Good guys!!!
Don't confuse semi auto and full auto, that's a ploy by the media to confuse the masses. i.e. the "black gun" is really no different than my deer rifle which is what I imagine the gent in Texas used, most likely it was a lever action 30.30 (very common) or a semi auto Remington or Browning.
Again, very common at deer camps and def not a automatic weapon.
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Originally Posted by Langlen
I'm a leftist. And I've got no problems with people owning guns for self defense.
Here's another leftie NOT opposed to gun ownership. I don't even have a problem with automatic rifles.
And guess what? It was the Bush administration that got me to change my views. For the first time, with Cheney in charge, I could conceive of the United States government turning on its citizens and the idea of citizens being allowed to bear arms made perfect sense. So suck on that.
To Langlen, are you aware that it takes a Class III permit to own an automatic weapon in this country? Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a Class III license? Only a select few can pass the requirements AND pay the fees required.
Not to mention that one must surrender their 4th Amendment rights...
It was the Bush administration that got me to change my views. ... So suck on that.
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