Here are 5 reasons why Mike the Gun Guy, a bone-fide gun nut, believes that assault rifles should be banned. Not regulated – banned.
Reason #1: Assault rifles are the weapons of choice when someone wants to kill as many people as possible. Since 2012 there have been 10 mass shootings resulting in 30 or more dead or wounded victims. Every single one of these shootings was accomplished with and AR or an AK.
Reason #2. Mass shootings like Parkland, Sandy Hook or Aurora kill or wound less than 3% of all gun victims each year, but these events devastate the communities in which they occur. The Sandy Hook Elementary School had to be torn down after 2012 because residents of Newtown suffered emotional trauma every time they drove past the site.
Reason #3. Assault rifles like AR-15s, and AK-47s are not (read: not) sporting guns. They are designed and used as tactical weapons, i.e., destruction of human life. These are tactical guns even when they only fire in semi-auto mode. They can be used for hunting or sport shooting, but that’s not what they are designed to do.
Reason #4. Banning assault rifles does not infringe on 2nd-Amendment ‘rights’ at all. The 2nd Amendment is an amendment, not a ‘right.’ Rights are defined by laws and the Courts have held consistently that government can outlaw guns that are too dangerous for ordinary ownership or use.
Reason #5. If the Federal Government were to compensate every owner of an assault rifle at fair market value for turning in his/her gun, the total cost would be 11 billion dollars. The 2020FY budget is $4.83 trillion dollars. As Bill Clinton would say, do the math. It’s nothing.
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C’mon Mike – I am NOT a gun guy, but I follow the news so I know (and every gun guy or gal will tell you) that the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, with 49 dead, was NOT done with an AR-15 or AK-47.
It was a Sig Sauer MCX. As gun guys know, there are a number of different semi-automatic rifles on the market, many dressed up as tacti-cool ‘assault rifles’.
In practice, the cosmetic differences between an ‘assault rifle’ and a SA hunting rifle do not make the assault rifle more deadly; they make it look like a good prop for a Schwarzenegger film, rather than a John Wayne Western. We are literally talking about things like bayonet and grenade launcher mounts as distinguishing, banned features of ‘assault rifles’. Do compare the Ruger Mini-14 Ranch and the Ruger Mini-14 Tactical and try to explain why one is deadlier than the other.
ANY semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine is capable of rapid fire and quick reloading of deadly bullets. Banning ‘assault weapons’ based on their cosmetics would be akin to addressing our nation’s alcohol deaths by banning gin and flavored vodkas while ignoring whisky, beer and wine.