The situation dictates the weapon....you don't get to make that choice for another person.
The rifles you want banned are not Assault rifles, they are civilian and police rifles...the weapons you call "assault" rifles have a selector switch for fully automatic or 3 round burst fire...the weapons you keep talking about don't have that.
A rifle in a self defense situation, depending on the situation is better than a hand gun..... you can add a light, better sites, a laser, and it is a declaration of being a serious gun owner. A woman with a 5 shot snub nose facing one or more criminals might be tested by those criminals. If she presents an AR-15 confidently, they will be much less likely to test her.
The ban wouldn't eliminate any of them...they will simply use hand guns, the most popular gun for mass shootings, shotguns, and they will seek even easier prey.
Parkland....18 dead...... Russian Polytechnic with a tube fed, 5 shot, pump action shotgun 20 dead and 40 injured....... you lose. Virginia Tech, 2 pistols, 32 dead...Luby's cafe, 24 dead, 2 pistols.....
Sandy Hook.....he chose that gun free school and the grade level he attacked because he didn't want resisitance to the attack...in fact, he killed himself as soon as he heard the police sirens......and if he didn't have the AR-15 you moron, he could have killed just as many small children with one or more hand guns or shotguns....you dope.
As far as Gilroy, I am showing you that it isn't the weapon that matters...you dope...it is how much free time in the gun free zone the killer has before someone points a gun at him and makes him stop shooting unarmed people....that is why Gilroy, even with a rifle and magazines...killed 3, while the Russian Polytechnic shooter killed 20 and injured 40 with a tube fed, no magazine, 5 shot, pump action shotgun.....
You don't know what you are talking about...
Shove your definition argument up your ass,
If assault riifles ain't worth shit as you keep arguing, why do you care if they are banned???
When you have to go back nearly 30 years for an example, I think you already lost the argument.
In Gilroy 3 dead in 3o seconds. Now pretend that having a semi automatic had nothing to do with it. Three dead but he fired a lot more bullets all in 30 seconds.
If the ficking assaukt rifle is nit an advanmtage, why fp you want rthjemn
You can't keep arguing that they provide no advantage & then clain you need them for self defense.
You argument is ******* stupid.
Because, asshat....... they are just normal, civilian and police rifles. They operate the same way as all the other rifles that aren't lever action, bolt action or pump action...and if you ass clowns are allowed to ban them, you will come back and demand all semi-automatic weapons, including revolvers, pistols, shotguns and all other semi-auto rifles be banned...since they all operate the same way...
It is bait and switch with you lying asshats...
Moron....as you have been told, it isn't the weapon, it is the free time the killer has in a gun free zone shooting unarmed people that determines the death count. As soon as you get someone with a gun pointing it at them or shooting them, the killing stops....
That is why, asshat....
Gilroy.... Rifle with magazine...3 dead.....stopped by a gun.
Russian Polytechnic school shooting.... no rifle, no magazine.... tube fed, 5 shot, pump action shotgun.... 20 killed 40 injured...because the Russian police took forever to get there...
Virginia Tech....32 killed, no rifle, 2 pistols......
Luby's cafe...2 pistols....24 killed....
that is why you don't know what you are talking about....