...You might start by reading this.
The Assault Weapon Myth ...
Not interested. Only interested in tightly regulating or banning battlefield -caliber assault weapons, e.g. AR-15s, AK-47s, etc.
...Then if you manage to get through that you might begin by understanding that NO weapon that is sold to the usual citizen is not military type weaponry...
Not interested in such fine distinctions. AR-15s, AK-47s and the like need to be tightly regulated or banned.
...It only looks like one, it is still one trigger pull one shot. Military weapons have a selector switch one position fires a three round burst, the other position is fully automatic. Fully automatic means it fires as long as it has bullets and the trigger is held...
I was pulling the trigger on M-14s and M-16s decades ago; probably before you were born.
...A civillian may poses a military grade weapon IF they go through an extensive background check and pay thousands of dollars...
Time to make folks jump through similar hoops for AR-15s and AK-47s.
...The next thing you might want to realize is that 30% of all Americans currently own a gun of somekind. Another 36% say they would be interested in owning one. 46% of all households have at least one gun and gun owner...
Doesn't matter. Nobody's talking about banning them. Merely AR-15s, AK-47s and the like; banning, or tightly controlling them.
...The next thing you might realize is that there is a thing called the second amendment in the Bill of Rights that allows for people owning guns. It says nothing about guns that look scary.This was upheld by the Supreme Court in Heller...
We will use the same law (or type of law) that tightly controls military-grade weapons, to control AR-15s and AK-47s and their kindred.
Within a Constitutional framework.
...One Mass shooting took place in 1966 at the University of Texas it used an ordinary hunting rifle. 14 were killed 31 wounded, one died later from complications. I could continue to show all kinds of mass shootings that used nothing that looked like a scary military weapon. But as I said most people only can have something that looks scary to you.
That was then.
This is now.
AR-15s and AK-47s and the like are now in the cross-hairs.