The literalist reveals a shallow mind. The point is (and follow closely if you can) there are weapons designed for military use. The design mandate is the ability to kill as many people in as short a period of time as possible. Such weapons are fitted out with semi or fully automatic firing systems or a semi automatic firing system modified to act as fully automatic. They are also equipped with high capacity magazines to sustain that ghastly rate of fire. Such weapons have no legitimate civilian use and should never be in the hands of civilians.
Steps have been taken to keep some military weapons out of civilian hands. My position is the ban is incomplete. All military weapons must be out of civilian hands.
Now, pick some fly shit out of that ground pepper, or bring logic.
If the second amendment is designed to protect us from government tyranny, then it is only logical that suitable weapons must be available to meet the government.
You clearly are driven by your feelings and not logic in any form. Fortuantely cowards like yourself are not in abundance and the rest of us will defend your rights that you so freely discard.
The second amendment is clear on the fight against tyranny. "A well regulated militia...wait for it... being necessary to the security of a free State! Well Regulated Militia! That leaves out anyone who would not follow and obey the regulations part of "a well regulated militia". And that leaves the safety aspect of this situation to the people. If the people want high capacity clips and rapid rate of fire weapons out on the streets, let's flood the streets with them! Surely things couldn't get much worse.
But if you agree that such weapons have no place on our streets, in our schools, in our theaters and campuses, then you have to agree that they are weapons deserving to be 'well regulated', like that constitutionally mandated militia.
It ain't 'feelings'. It's a logical way out of this maddness.