ctdonath
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Because their job dictates a significantly heightened level of preparation, warranting the otherwise significant inconvenience of keeping that much firepower at hand. They're advantageous in a few situations - which you probably deliberately avoid and most likely won't get into, and which they actively seek and try to get into.
You need to balance the need to carry something with the odds that you most likely will never need to use it, and that anything bigger than a certain size will cause more grief from cumulative lifetime annoyance than the marginal advantage it will give you should you need it. As others have noted, CCWing a SMG is cool for about a day, then quickly becomes "why bother" - for a reason.
It's kinda like why you don't wear a parachute when you fly: yes, you _might_ need it (lotto-winning odds here), but the drag on life doesn't balance with the vanishingly small chance of using it.
Strictly speaking that's sorta true. Unfortunately it is usually misinterpreted as justification for "spray and pray" - the hope that by throwing a lotta lead thataway will hit something, which probably won't work ("you can't miss fast enough"). You MUST be sure that first round hits the target somewhere useful; full-auto only serves to get followup shots there quicker, at the price of reduced accuracy and using up ammo sooner ... vs. taking a moment longer to make sure each followup round is just as accurate as the first. The close-up scenario mentioned only works because it's at hard-to-miss distances (which are a lot shorter than you may think), and does not account for running out of ammo too early.
Put concisely: only take on full-auto if you have mastered semi-auto ... at which point you'll realize that for nearly all realistic scenarios semi-auto is the preferred choice for reasons of accuracy, capacity, concealability.
