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

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You're clueless. If you are unable to understand the importance of semantics when dealing with written laws then you are part of the problem. "Assault weapon" is a deliberately nebulous term that gives laws using it broad discretion in defining it.

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Wrong.

Once it is defined legally, it is a valid term - no matter how you feel about it.

The fact is that sitting on the sidelines just saying, "there's no such thing as 'assault weapon'" doesn't help. They will define it and ban as they see fit unless people start accepting terms and debating the actual merits of the argument.

Ultimately it doesn't matter how the term is defined, what matters is securing our right to bear arms - whatever they want to call them. the shop owner on the radio thought, "Hey, 'assault weapon' sounds kind of cool, I'll use that to sell products." And there's nothing wrong with that. Just like there's nothing inherently wrong with the term "assault weapon". If you think there is, you're letting the propaganda get to you.

Call it what you want, just don't inhibit my lawful ability to stock my safe with it is all I'm saying.