False equivalency. You are describing accidents. The day that lawn mowers attack a school or a mosque, you may have a point. Were those deer packin? See? this is a prime example of how conservatives lie or redirect in order to dismiss what's the real threat. Just 43? Well, shit! fuck those victims then right? I don't know why I bother trying to talk real world sense to you clowns. And, all of those crazy, violent ladders! We should place cuffs on the second rung and toss them in jail with the bathtubs and the deer. Even if I was to accept your point, those bathroom fixtures and ladders examples do not include innocent citizens shot by cops and other gang members. Or crimes committed with guns that have been stolen at burglaries at homes with entirely too many guns. After my stint in Vietnam, 53 years ago I've never felt a need to get an assault weapon or a gun that could be converted to an assault weapon. I wouldn't take a chance that the kids or grand kids could get their hands on them. I've both killed with those guns and I've been shot with them. They have no place in my world. If I felt threatened by Rogue bathtubs or a deer militia, I might get a handgun and stow it away from prying eyes. That was the pretty standard gun for personal protection. Now, we suddenly need an AR or an AK? It has everything to do with ego and nothing to do with common sense. But what it does do is encourage immature assholes to want to play war or impress the little woman. Now, there are so fuckin' many of those weapons of overkill that it rings insanity. But those who are in it for instant respect or fuckability will get neither. You just look silly and wanton. Just like I've seen on here, fools relate those types of guns to being seen as tough guys! They can strut their stuff and convince themselves that they are more than. They just look like the fools that they are. I despise those tough guys. In reality, If an armed deer tried to attack them they would jump on their lawn mower and be gone.