mortablunt
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I definitely don't agree with him here. And even most representative gun owners, having gone through the AWB, wouldn't agree with him either. I agree with him on most other things.
Let's drop the "its not a real assault rifle" mantra. We all know what is being referred to. Arguments of semantics are obvious dodges of the real issues at hand and convince nobody of nothing. If somebody says "we should ban assault rifles like what was used in the theater shooting" it will not convince them that AR's should be allowed by pointing out that a real assault rifle is select fire. They are concerned with what the gun enabled the shooter to do. Not proper terminology.
I would love to have an exact 10 years of ban and 10 years without numbers battle best i can do with the report is an average of deaths per year of During and Since.
During Ban-
A total of 96,127 people died
subtract suicides and its 84,659 people
This is over a 10 year period it averages 8,465.9 deaths per year by a gun not including Suicide
Since the ban lifted-
A total of 53,219 people died
Subtract suicides and its 46,703 people
That is over a 6 year period
Averages 7,783.8 per year by a gun
So what makes you think another ban would help any? Even with the increase of the population and economical hardships and record setting unemployment the numbers went down.
These are FBI Statistic numbers. This site just puts them in a way to show comparisons.
http://ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezashr/asp/off_display.asp
Let's drop the "its not a real assault rifle" mantra. We all know what is being referred to. Arguments of semantics are obvious dodges of the real issues at hand and convince nobody of nothing. If somebody says "we should ban assault rifles like what was used in the theater shooting" it will not convince them that AR's should be allowed by pointing out that a real assault rifle is select fire. They are concerned with what the gun enabled the shooter to do. Not proper terminology.
everyone has right to own a car, just not BMW
Precisely my point.There aren't. Lots of semi-auto Kalashnikov-pattern rifles, but very few actual AK-47s.
While I will concede that the Second Amendment allows for regulations, it does not limit ownership to "Hunting" or "Sporting" purposes.