[citation][nom]Gooberface[/nom]Hey ! Let me ask you this : In how many countries outside the US has schol shootings occurred ? I know you have a "Constitutional Right" but maybe it´s time to revoke it.Kinder Eggs are prohibited because of a small toy inside is considered dangerous, but you can legally get an AK47 ??? Tell me in which scenario an assault rifle makes perfect sense for a normal citizen to have ?[/citation]
The assault rifle is just a name to make certain guns seem scary but the actual internal firing hardware is exactly the same as whats found in your standard hunting rifle. (if you do not believe me, dur your self a standard semi auto hunting rifle, then buy your self an AR-15 and take both apart.
Just like how you can have a PC with a bland case, of a system with the same hardware, but with a flash case with enough LED's to light up a small country, you get the same with a rifle.
Also there is nothing bad about semi auto. almost all guns sold are semi auto as it allows you to shoot multiple times. Unless you have a high powered military weapon, unless your shot is extremely well placed, it will be difficult to incapacitate someone with a single shot (it is not like in the movies where a bullet sends someone flying
If someone is hopped up on drugs to a point where the pain response is not functioning properly, you can fire a lot of shots into them and unless you hit the head, heart or spine, or key supporting muscles, an attacker can still come at you.
That is why in law enforcement training, you are told to shoot until the threat is gone. Not all people will go into shock the moment a bullet.
good example
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furthermore a standard handgun will kill someone just as dead as a rifle would, and a normal handgun will shoot just as fast as the "assault rifles" that some people are so scared of.
Imagine if someone breaks in and you are stuck with a single shot weapon and you mis the first shot, or you only graze them, or you don't hit anything vital? (you will not have the time to be fiddling with ammo and dropping it in a panic, or getting charged due to the unreasonably long reload time)
In the US, mass shootings as defined by 3 or more innocent people being killed in a single event, are rare but they all (with the exception of events such as the civil war) happen in gun free zones where the good guys are disarmed and the criminal is the only one with a gun.
Furthermore, there are 30-40 events a year on average where a potential mass shooting is stopped (a person begins shooting but is stopped by someone else, and every single one of those cases, a person with a gun was the one to stop them.
Gun ownership reduces crime, every state or country that has passed strict gun control to ban guns, have showed a 200-300% increase in violent crime (no exceptions), also an increase in murder as criminals no longer have to worry about their victims being armed and can freely assault the public. (in large part the increase in murder in areas where guns are banned is due to the shift of more criminals engaging in home invasions while the people are still home and deciding that dead people make bad witnesses.
In areas with high gun ownership, the cost of doing a violent crime becomes significantly higher. (if you look at the gun laws in many states, and find the ones with the most relaxed gun control, you will see that the violent crime that is not counted as domestic abuse and not counted as gang related activity, is in the single digits while in states with the most strict gun control (eg NY, it is in the thousands)
Most gun violence come from gang activity and lax gun control or strict gun control seems to have no impact on the gangs killing people (they get their guns from the black market to ensure that they cannot be traced to an owner, so banning guns only disarms the law abiding people) (the countries with the highest violent crime rate (essentially the top 10, will have the UK at the top, followed by countries such a Australia, and a mis of other countries with strong gun control and 3rd world countries. (the US may have the highest gun death, but we have some of the lowest violent crime rate on the planet (most gun deaths in America are due to suicide and gang activity, of the few that remain, most are considered justifiable homicide, of which most is committed by the police (which is also counted in the gun death stats)
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