maybe read up on current events a little more?
Well, golly, I seem to recall an event about eight years ago. Biggest terrorist attack on American soil. Over 3000 killed. The weapons were box cutters and airplanes. No shots fired. Remember that one? Second biggest attack was a good ole' boy and a Ryder truck full of ammonium nitrate. Again, no shots fired. As for those six idiots who were arrested before they could try anything--in light of all the stuff that's happened (including numerous actual mass shootings done by red-blooded Americans), it's those degenerates who keep you up at night?
if this was located in VA, the one citizen COULD had bought the weapons they sought but I would rather take chances with ONE possible nutcase vs. letting the green card holders have the right to buy "assault" rifles without proof of citizenship.
It that kind of creeping incrementalist "logic" the anti-gunners use to argue for banning all sorts of different guns. "If we could just save one person, then it would all be worth it". In other words, you use an extremely unlikely or uncommon event to deprive rights from a chunk of the population. There are three hundred million people in this country and by far the leading causes of death are heart disease, cancer, and stroke, in that order, according to the CDC. Terrorism--especially terrorism involving guns--ranks somewhere near lightning strikes as a cause of death (which average about 80 a years, again according to the CDC--see link). Hell, the ratio of annual deaths due to car accidents to that caused by international terrorism is 142:1 in the U.S.--and even that number is high because the study spans 1994 and 2003 (see link).
http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/PrevGuid/m0052833/m0052833.asp
http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/cgi...T&fulltext=terrorism&searchid=1&RESULTFORMAT=
Again, what you're talking about is collective punishment. Might work in boot camp, but that's not how we do things in the "good ole USA". It's just anti-gun paranoia masquerading as "public safety".
Funny that some of the people who wave the flag the hardest are the most eager to deprive others of rights for the flimsiest of reasons. It's classic "divide and conquer": get one group behind depriving rights for another, thinking that such laws would "never" come back to bite them in the butt. Right.
There are a couple of other reasons I find your rationale so, uh, interesting. First, "assault weapons" are essentially a way to have the government in the business of defining exactly what guns they think you should be allowed to own. Just what we need, more beaurocrats obsessing over the "shoulder thing that goes up". Second, by supporting an AW ban, you are acknowledging that you think gun control works. I mean, think about it, a person who had no qualms about killing a bunch of folks probably wouldn't concern themselves with going through legal channels to get guns.
you don't live in a diverse place like northern VA do ya???.....Where we have an Islamic school funded by Saudi Arabia that teaches intolerance and fundamentalist rhetoric, so much that there is growing opposition to the planned expansion of this school.