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Old 09-29-2005, 01:19 PM   #15
J'aran
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Join Date: December 12, 2001
Location: Fryslân, The Netherlands
Age: 46
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Originally posted by Ilander:
NOTE: "semiautomatic" means that a weapon fires, then chambers the next round, and cocks the weapon. It does not imply that the weapon is an assault weapon. Most pistols, with the exception of some revolvers, are semiautomatic. Many, many rifles are.
Allright, thanks for pointing that out, I don't know too much about the mechanics of guns.

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Why is banning all guns a terrible idea? I'd honestly rather not get into that...but I don't see how anyone who's adamant about the government infringing upon their rights could possibly want the government to tell them they cannot own a gun.
Wherever people organize themselves into groups (like a country) there are going to be limits to the rights of each individual. Of course advocates of gun ownership will be ticked off when the government revokes their right to own a gun (or never grants it to them in the first place) but that's hardly an argument in the pro-contra debate. But let's indeed not get into that, it's not the issue here.

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The fact that some families back home in Appalachia actually keep their family fed (partially) by hunting is immaterial, I guess.
It is in this argument, yes. Unless they're using assault weapons to hunt, of course.

But my question is still: why would a civilian need to own an assault weapon? Normal guns I can understand the reasoning behind, even though I'm not entirely convinced that even that is a good idea. But assault rifles? I mean, come on, you have to draw the line somewhere.

[ 09-29-2005, 01:21 PM: Message edited by: J'aran ]
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