Assault Rifle Ban

[Ewan]

You know, you're not allowed to carry guns over here in England, we don't get much gun-crime.

[wadi]

First of all, Hunting rifles are more powered than assault rifles so they are not more dangerous than what is already out there. Anyone could easily get a remmington 700, put a good scope on it along with a good sniper stock and you've got yourself a lethal .5 MOA sniper rifle. A setup like this would trump the Maryland sniper's setup easilly.

Many hunting rifles are modified versions of their military cousins, however what separates an assault arm from a hunting arm is the capability to fire in semi-auto mode, and/or other military type features such as infrared, low-light, etc. None of these are necessary for hunting purposes, but do increase the "dangerousness" of the weapon in the hands of an assailant. So does the ability to own a clip larger than 10 rounds (how many times you gonna plunk that deer bubba?)

Second of all, thugs are too poor to own assault rifles. Assault rifles go for 2 grand and up, the really good ones going for much more than that. A street thug will normaly carry a 50 dollar POS handgun. Note the difference in price.

Columbine. Now picture Columbine with semi-auto assault weapons with larger clips. Better yet, take a look at the high school hostage situation in unregulated Russia. On top of this "2 grand and up" is the new price, and if they start selling assault rifles, a lot of current military surplus, and pre-ban items go back on the sales block. I doubt you'd have to spend more than 10 minutes looking before you could find one for under 2 grand.

Thirdly, assault rifles are almost never used in crimes. This goes along with number 2.

There's a very famous video of men armed with assault weapons and body armor shooting it out outside a bank. (Los Angeles I think) True, the number of instances of crimes in which assault weapons were used is low, but if you watch the video, I don't think you'll find a single reason to give someone an excuse to increase those numbers.

You wont be able to understand why someone would want to own an assault rifle until you've shot one.

I've shot one (Surplus M16) at a range in alaska, along with a DE and various other pistols, single shot rifles and shotguns. Honestly, there's very little else to do in Fairbanks. I understand the thrill of firing such a weapon, but I also recognize that such an item does not serve any purpose other than being a very very dangerous collector's item in the hands of a law abiding citizen, or a very very dangerous tool in the hands of a criminal.

Edit: Selex gets a warning for spam. If you don't have somethig on topic to say, take it to useless crap.

Re-Edit: oh, and that's two for you, so the next one's a month vacation.

[ZeUs!!]

You see that wadi? He said ME, not you

[geekbot]

1. Why is the expiration of a 10 year ban on assault rifles Bush's fault?

2. I hate campers.

[Mr. Peanuts]

I wanna see Dave Chappelle do a skit on this.

[Dim]

You Americans need a gun to kill iraqies / afghans etc, always good practise as ALL IRAQIES AND OTHER COUNTRIES ARE BAD BAD BAD THEY WILL KILL YOU BUSH SAID ITS TRUE YES.

[Arc]

They banned it because of road rage, if a guy had one more deaths would occur.

Like that guy in cali that killed a guy with a crossbow because of road rage.

[Cig Smoke]

IM with lethe. The guns arent all that different from hunting rifles. You can buy a pump action rifle and shoot it almost as fast as u can shoot the semi-auto assault rifle. Grant its not as fast, but u can shoot it fast enough. Same with Pistols. They are semi-auto. A gun is a gun, any gun can kill someone regardless. its not like these guns are full auto or machine gun where ur shooting 100 rounds a minute or whatever htey shoot.

About the 10 round clips. How many rounds can u put in a pistol clip? Im not sure offhand. You can fit 7+ In certain rifles. So whats the real big difference?

STop critisizing stupid stuff like this.

[wadi]

Do the damn research before you join a discussion cig.

[DoTheFandango]

Why the fuck do we need to hunt?

We get all the meat we need from a market. And if you wanna hunt use a fucking trap.

"Hunting is the only sport the other team doesn't know it is playing".

[uranium]

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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/192748

[Tanzu]

Remember, any punk can fire from accross the room but it takes a man to get close enough to STAB!

[Selex]

Edit: Selex gets a warning for spam. If you don't have somethig on topic to say, take it to useless crap.

Re-Edit: oh, and that's two for you, so the next one's a month vacation.

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Last edited by wadi : Yesterday at 09:01 AM.

I GET A VACATION?!!! OMFG... Wait.. you just editted then re-editted... ban...! Bad wadi!... Im getting alot of warning lately.. Is it for double posting or is it my excessive typage that I express in my posts? Cool. :eek: If you say both you will die.

[Ilya]

..fucking fat people

[DoTheFandango]

Why do we need to hunt. Tell me.

Recreation? Bullshit. Play shooting video games, if not that, then take up paintball.
Food? Laugh. Big Y has all the meat you will ever need.
For population control? Right. Don't you know how the web of life works?

Animal = X
Hunter of Animal = Y

When X increases, Y Also increases, which thus means X will eventually decrease due to abundance of life of hunters, natural that is.