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Keltoi Samurai
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Kanade61500
Oh my god, I can't believe they are trying to take away our guns.
stressed You all know this is just the first step, they are trying to take away all our rights. Oh, and one more question... What kills people?
People kill people. If they take away our guns murderers will just turn to something else, like bombs or just the old fashion knife.
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Yeah, but it's a lot harder to kill people with a knife.
The same day as the Newtown shooting, a man went into a Chinese Elementary school, and stabbed twenty-two children and one adult. None of them died.
And no one's trying to take away all your guns. Just assault rifles, and things like that. No one needs an assault rifle.
no one
has an assault rifle, since they outlawed those back in 1986.
please,
please research a subject before you speak about it.
My research was watching the news for the last year and a half, and seeing at least two separate massacres occur with an assault rifle. Newtown was with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, and Aurora was with a Smith & Wesson M&P15 semi-automatic rifle.
Fully-automatic assault rifles were outlawed back in 1986. Semi-automatics are the ones that were used in these shootings.
@Kanade61500: Yes, bombs are also dangerous, but they're already illegal, so there's not much more we can do regarding them specifically. I don't know what you expect me to address there. 'We should make illegal things even more illegal'?
the very definition of assault rifle makes the term "semi-automatic assault rifle" a contradiction in terms.
an assault rifle, by definition, is a select-fire weapon. a select-fire weapon has a semi-automatic mode and a burst-fire or full automatic mode. if it lacks the burst fire or full-auto, then it is not an assault rifle, regardless of what it looks like.
so, no, neither the Newtown, nor Aurora Massacres were committed with assault rifles.
now, those weapons did fit into a nebulous political term of "assault weapons," but that is literally a made-up term with no set definition. it includes rifles, shotguns and handguns that meet certain criteria, as well as ones that don't meet certain criteria, but are mentioned by name in the various laws that have been passed to try and ban such weapons ( which, I might add, Newtown occurred in a state that already had such an Assault Weapon Ban, meaning that such a ban would not have prevented that incident on account of them already having such a ban and it did not prevent the incident ), but that category is best described as "guns that scare people," on account of there being no clear defining traits that make a weapon qualify, since the M1 Garand is classed as one, despite not having a detachable box magazine, not having a pistol grip, only having an 8-round maximum magazine capacity, not having a barrel shroud or folding stock, etc.
but, anyways, my point is you are confusing "assault rifle" with "assault weapon," despite the fact that the two terms describe very different weapons. it's pretty much like calling a VCR an Xbox 360 because they both hook up to TVs
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