If we have 88 guns for every 100 Americans, how many more guns would we need to have a safe country?
Anti-tank rifles and landmines cannot be sold. Why assault rifles?
I guess I have 2 hands so 2 semi-automatic handguns each firing 17 rounds in 10 seconds, or so. Or, 30 rounds . . .
When I was living in Washington, DC, I used to get my haircut a few blocks away from where I attended school (North East DC). On one such occasion, the barber had turned the chair so I could look outside the storefront window. Directly across the street was a laundromat. Within mere minutes, a large group (20-30) of young black men, all wearing bright red t-shirts, hoodies, bandanas, converged on the laundromat.
They grabbed a young man and a young woman. They then dragged them out to the center of the street, in broad daylight and in full view of everyone on the street, and beat them to death. They then quickly dispersed.
I remember seeing a foot patrol officer make an abrupt about face and very quickly walk in the opposite direction when he saw this mob.
The barber, turned my chair away from the window and said "man .... there is nothing we can do ..."
If a bystander had a fully automatic rifle, they might have been able to save two innocent lives. Of course, they would be putting their own life at risk, especially by killing gang members. But since no one was armed or resisted, and the consensus was that "nothing could be done" they got away with it.
So yes, automatic weapons are necessary
sometimes. No, not
all the time. An average American can live their entire lifespan without ever seeing such an act of violence and feel as though people who want automatic weapons must be crazy. Therefore, they can justify supporting legislation that would prohibit
anyone from owning one. Therefore, successfully criminalizing anyone who defends themselves, or others.
Then, the only people who end up getting them are the real crazy people, and this leaves everyone else defenseless. (btw, gang members will convert a gun to full auto, they do not care about getting a class III permit).
I am not trying to preach ... just put this in the discussion as a "different perspective".
