I believe that if you enjoy hunting or want a small weapon for self defense in your house in case of something like a burglary. But you shouldn't be able to go out and buy yourself a weapon whose design derives from that of a weapon made to kill people. I mean, from what good reason should someone need a gun like that for self defense, when you can simply have a handgun? I mean a .44 Magnum will knock a burglar on the ground faster than a combat rifle like that. Besides, a handgun is so much smaller and much easier to handle than a rifle.
It all confuses me too, as I wasn't born American, but that's my opinion. So, TLDR-
Want something to go hunting with? Get a hunting rifle or shotgun. Want to stay safe in your house/protect yourself from burglars? Get a handgun. Do you need a combat rifle? Absolutely not. So my verdict stands; don't ban guns in all, but make some strict to own.
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Also, you obviously have no concept of actual firearms, ownership or ballistics as it goes for home defense. Stop watching msnbc and cnn, hell all news for that fact. Do your own objective research and hell go shoot an AR15 or AK and form your own opinion
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Edited by Suppressing Fire: 6/29/2016 4:50:32 AMHey guess what. I have. When my uncle moved here a few years after I did, he was fond of weapon ownership. He owns an AR-15, which I have, as a matter of fact, shot. After I did such, I formed my opinion. No average Joe should be able to walk out and buy one of those guns. Don't jump to conclusions, my friend. It gets you nowhere except for a few steps backwards. Edit: I'd also like to clarify that he owns a .44 which he keeps in his room, which is his go-to self defense weapon. I've shot that, too.
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Edited by boats: 6/29/2016 5:04:23 AMI challenge you, just walk out and buy one.
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Just walk out an buy? Do u own any?
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The 2nd amendment is not for hunting. It is for the people to protect themselves from a tyrannical government that will one day form.
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Imo, the Second Amendment was created as a failsafe in case the government can't do what it's supposed to do, which is perform what the people want in a responsible way. I don't think that we can completely consider a tyrannical government to be an eventuality, but we can definitely consider it as a possibility. However, even if it happens, the people outnumber the government by so much that we'd overthrow them without very advanced guns, and even if the army is brought into it, the people would still win (and that's assuming that nobody in the army decides that they don't want to slaughter their friends, family, and neighbors to protect a tyrannical government).
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Agreed, maybe not an eventuality but drfinately a possibility. All you have to do isook throughout human history. Governments and the ruling classes have almkst always become tyrannical at some point. We are animals.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Handguns are actually considered more dangerous where I live because you can hide them easier, but I see where you're coming from. I don't think assault weapons should be banned though, but not easy to get either.
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A very sound argument. I've been paying attention to gun-related incidents in America since Sandy Hook but still know almost nothing about gun culture in America. For someone in Britain, it's all quite...strange, in a way.
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I mean, I'm not far off from you. I'm from Sweeden, but moved to the U.S. a while back and I feel after seeing how the 2nd Amendment describes weapon ownership, in the ways anyone can have a weapon to go to for self defense, is a good idea to me. But the system in which someone is able to simply buy a gun is obviously flawed, and there is a lot of tuning that needs to be done on it.
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To buy a gun for personal/property defence or sport seems perfectly okay to me. To have one for the sake of having one though, I'm not so sure. I'm always open for new opinions and ideas, though.
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So you and I are pretty much on the same verdict I see. I've yet to hear anyone say a good reason to have a powerful weapon, and anyone who says its good to own such a powerful gun and boasts all about it never has a sound reason why. So yeah, I'm now convinced that there is no reason.
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I'll always hear someone out. If they have a coherant, logical argument then I'll by all means let them explain, regardless of my views on it.