re: 70% of Young Americans think we should be allowed to own Assualt Rifles

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Assault weapon is the term for ignorance-based scare propaganda used by gun-control advocates.

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You're wrong.

Yesterday as I was driving back to Louisisna from North Carolina I was listening to the radio in Alabama. On came a commercial for a sporting goods store whoch advertized, "With a large selection of assault weapons to choose from". Here is an entrepreneur using the term to his benefit. Those of you saying that it is a made up term for scary guns are inadvertantly falling for the propagamda. There is nothing inherently bad with the term 'assault weapon', and the sporting goods store owner recognizes that. Many posters in this thread don't.

We shouldn't be arguing that there's no such thing as an 'assault weapon', we should instead be arguing that we shouldn't ban assault weapons. They want to call them assault weapons? I don't care what they call them, I only care about the legality of these weapons - whatever they want to call them. Don't get caught up in the semantics, it's a diversion from the real issue.