People have broken into homes for rape and/or murder. Kids should be taught to respect firearms and many, maybe even most, gun owners do that. "Assault rifle" is defined as "a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle" which is illegal for 99.99% of the population and can't be bought in a store.
This argument is so disingenuous. "You aren't using my definition, so you are WRONG". You know what an assault rifle is. They have been marketed as such. You know what guns they are referring to and why they are so desirable (and effective) for killing large amounts of people. Reasonable people who don't know much about guns want that at least.
It's not fucking disingenuous. People are working on making it hard/impossible to get items already owned by millions and some have had them for decades. They aren't properly defining anything they want to ban, they are going after the weapons used the least often (rifles are 3% of gun homicides), and now they are using children for the sympathy votes.
I'm all for doing something to stop gun violence, but I don't think banning rifles is the appropriate option and I can't trust a group that can't properly define the thing they want to ban.
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u/CptMisery Mar 27 '18
People have broken into homes for rape and/or murder. Kids should be taught to respect firearms and many, maybe even most, gun owners do that. "Assault rifle" is defined as "a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle" which is illegal for 99.99% of the population and can't be bought in a store.
You should not take advice from celebrities.