I can do that handily, in this recent example. Guess who got left alone during that riot?
Um...Kevin McAllistair?
Kind of like prohibitions on drugs?
Hopefully, better than that.
Why? What's the point? You're less likely to be shot to death by a rifle than to die in a tornado.
So? I have no idea what point you think you're making here.
And yet you don't seem to know what an assault weapon is.
I don't need to know. The 1994 federal ban defined the term, I have no problem sticking to that.
Since you don't seem willing to define what they are,
Again,
the term has been defined.
you can't claim that situations would or would not be different (from your point of view) based on whether or not assault weapons are present.
I don't have to. All I need to do is make the obvious observation that assault weapons are deadlier than regular arms.
Maybe we should ban rocks and sticks and claw hammers because they're deadly weapons.
If you want to suggest banning all deadly weapons, take it up with your elected representative. Personally, I never advocated any such thing.
Which is basically anything.
True. But some things more than others. It doesn't take an expert on firearms to say an assault weapon is deadlier than a clump of dirt.
According to
the CNN website, the police took 20 minutes to get there. 3 shots a minute is sixty shots. How many shots did he fire with his AR-15?
More than if he had to reload after every shot.
Civil War soldiers could manage four shots a minute.
Then perhaps it would have been better had Lanza been born a century earlier. It sure as hell would have been better for those kids.
No, actually, he killed as many people as he did because it's a gun free zone, and there wasn't an armed citizen there to shoot him. The government denied people the effective means of defense against him.
IT WAS A FREAKIN' ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!!!!!
Are you saying the world would be a better place if kindergarten teachers were armed?
Man, we do not live on the same planet.
A2SG, you may also want to note that I did not call for the banning of everything that may possibly be deadly.....
Nope. Just "deadly weapons."
No, I didn't. Check again.
Well, you can use dirt to obtain potassium nitrate which is an ingredient for explosives. Should we ban potassium chlorate (it's in matches) because you can combine it with petroleum jelly to make a plastic explosive filler. How about fertilizer? (We all know how that turned out.)
Again, I never said any such thing.
-- A2SG, dunno who's saying the things you're arguing against, 'cuz it wasn't me....