re: what is the practical purpose of assault rifles?

I don't own an assault rifle, I own a defense rifle.

Obesity and complications from it also kill many more. Let's ban forks and spoons too while we're at it. Don't just stop at the knives!

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Anything to help. Again, what is the risk?

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But it's NOT anything, is it?

Let's take a step back for a minute and get to what presumably is the main issue...kids being killed at school...right? Ok...so why not address the fastest way to ACTUALLY stop that form happening?

Where are the calls for making schools harder targets, by installing metal detectors and locking gates to enter the school building during the day? My son's public high school is locked up from the outside during the day and a person is buzzed in by the front desk. This isn't some prison or school in some terrible district...it's brand new and in Youngsville.

Are these expenditures? Sure...but if we're interested in addressing the problem in the quickest way possible (and one that would address ALL "assault" weapons and not one particularly scary looking type) why not go to the most obvious solutions to the actual problem?

Truth is, I've come to the conclusion that far too many on the side wanting to ban certain "types" of firearms are much more interested really in the banning of firearms and the killing of school children are just a tool with which to accomplish this goal. Why do I think that...?

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A killing of 3 is some degree less tragic than the killing of 20, right?

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Aside form the fact that I think you're wrong on your math here as it suggests a well motivated killer could not lay waste to an open school setting with a run of the mill semi-automatic 12 gauge with a pocket full of shells, you seem ok with simply lessening the death count instead of looking for the best way to keep ALL killers out of the school in the most effective manner. If you were truly concerned about school deaths you'd not be talking about the banning of one type of gun...as I'll give you the credit for being smart enough to know that even if you banned them all from sale tomorrow, there are tons of them available everywhere and every OTHER gun still available for sale and on the street make the win moot. You'd either be talking about banning ALL firearms AND their forcible confiscation, or you'd be addressing making school impossible (or virtually so) for bad actors to enter them.

So...why not first things first in this case? Why must we pretend that going straight to curtailing the civil liberties of a huge portion of law abiding citizens is the only solution before actually addressing the actual problem first?

P.S. I own zero firearms.

What is the purpose of violent movies, movies that encourage smoking dope, drinking alcohol or encourage dangerous HIV and STD's by being sexual? What about the ones with car chases?

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but the armed US population could do nothing to stop the US armed forces under the control of a determined regime.

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so your suggestion is to just lay down and take it?

do you think the people of Venezuela wish they were armed right now?

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what is the practical purpose of assault rifles?

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A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State.....

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define assault rifle

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My cock.
Lightweight, accurate, low power, shoots fast.

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Look, I'm all for owning guns, but at the end of they day they do nothing to protect you from a government with our resources that is hell bent on destroying you. If Mexico decided to roll across the boarder tomorrow and our army rolled over for whatever reason in this hypothetical, the armed US population could put up a fight, but the armed US population could do nothing to stop the US armed forces under the control of a determined regime.

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You are making a very big assumption that those men in uniform are going to use those weapons against their own people.
Officer: Son, bomb New Orleans.
Pilot: Eh sir, my mom lives there.
Officer: that's an order

Yeh probably not

Just edited to add when you don't think your arguments through it makes me think you are a dumbass

What’s the practical use of a corvette or a Hummer or a yacht or a pet snake?

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You must not be aware of what is taking place in South Africa, one of the only first world countries in Africa. Their government voted to take away land from all white farmers with no compensation to redistribute to minorities because white's made up 73% of all farmers. They can do this because South Africa has ridiculous gun control laws and the population is not very well armed, not legally anyway. If you don't think something like that can happen here if they disarm the population, you're deluding yourself. Is their gov threatening to kill them? No. But, it's still a tyrannical act and they do not have adequate means to protect themselves, their family, or their property.

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No one asked for your Reuters story. They asked about an assault rifle which you probably don't own.