Originally Posted By: ronnierocketAGO
[quote=Five_Felonies]Re-read what I wrote. I never said anything about banning non-assault weapons. I wasn't talking about this particular news story, or that state's particular gun laws. But you're upset none the less. Not crazy, but mad regardless.

This is something gun folks love to do (and gun control people do as well), change the topic from a speciality fine point and instead talk about all guns as equal or all should be treated as such, or whatever simplified nonsense.

Again, why do people need to own assault weapons? We're not talking guns or shotguns. We're talking assault weapons. Why the need to own them? We're not having a brutal civil war like Syria, where an alleged 40,000 people have been killed so far (by a tyrant and his revolting opposition), and well local common sense dictate you get armed to save yourself. Is there a civil war up in New England I don't know about? Are those Hartford hockey fans still mad about their Whalers moving away

Besides your "education" cover defense is bull. How long have we been educating people that they shouldn't drink and drive? Yet it's still banned. How long, and with how much taxpaper money, have we told the public not to use pot or heroin and coke and meth and so forth? Yet they're still illegal. If anything I suppose assault weapons are like cigarettes. No fucking use, no reason to buy/use smokes (Pot at least arguably has the painkiller/glacoma medical cover) yet they're still legal. And people buy them.

OK people like cigarettes, they're addicted to them or enjoy smoking them. You can argue that. With assault weapons....again, why?

In general, moving away from my assault weapons rant, I'm neither for gun rights abolition or an unrestricted 2nd Amendment. I'm for common sense.

And god dammit that's truely sorely lacking in America today.
i'm not mad, just sharing my opinion, i never claimed you or anybody else wanted to ban guns, that wasn't directed at anybody here. as far as "assault weapons", an ar15 is NOT an asaault weapon, it is a modern sporting rifle. an assault weapon, by definition, is a seletive fire weapon, meaning that it has the ability to go from semi-auto to either full auto or burst fire with the flick of a switch. to aquire one of those , there are so many hoops to go through with regards to the atf that its just not possible for ordinary citizens. you guys can attack my definition and say i'm splitting hairs, thats ok. as far as wanting to own one, they are fun, and are effective self defense weapons. yes they can be deadly, but so can any firearm.

this weird liberal mindset of "ban this make/model and crime will go away" is nonsense. people are adaptive, both for good and bad. take one away and somebody who's dead set on committing a horrible act will still find a way. there are so many bad stories about gun owners that its very frustrating, as the OVERWHELMING majority are about as respectful ,friendly and safe as any other person, from my experience. the thing that gets me, is while we hear, and we should, about guns being used to commit horrific crimes, the flipside is rarely true, as many lives are saved by guns in the right hands.

It's either blue cheese with wings or go fuck yer mudda!