Graham is wrong on a lot of things, Red Flag Laws for one, but he explains the need for AR-15 civilian and police rifles really well...
The AR-15 is a .223" pea-shooter weapon, not even big enough to go hunting with, effectively in the same class as the .177" pump or COâ‚‚ BB guns and .22"-LR rimfire rifles every teenaged boy used to carry before extremist fanatical 9/11 progressive liberals took over our nation & destoyed the lives of an entire generation of youth.
Really:
An assault rifle is designed to deliver fatal wounds to multiple individuals within a short time period; it has no other purpose. The AR-15, the civilian version of the military assault rifle (M16 or M4), has become the most commonly used rifle in US mass shootings; the recent shootings in
Parkland and
Las Vegas, for instance, testify to the effectiveness of this weapon’s design. It was made for the military, to allow members of the armed forces to better dispatch multiple enemies in short order; in the hands of civilians, it not only clearly serves the same purpose for some individuals, but it’s unclear what other purpose it could serve, given how and why it was made.
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To compare again, a typical 9mm handgun wound to the liver will produce a pathway of tissue destruction in the order of 1-2 inches. In comparison, an AR-15 round to the liver will literally pulverize it, much like dropping a watermelon onto concrete results in the destruction of the watermelon. Wounds like this, as one sees in school shootings like
Sandy Hook and Parkland where AR-15s were used, have high fatality rates.
Opinion | The Parkland shooter's AR-15 should never have been legal
What are you trying to do, blast the meat you are trying to hunt.