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# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

I like my handguns too. I dont know what I'd do if they tried to take those too, probably move.

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

they dont want us to have assault weapons because they are effective. The government does not want us to protected against THEM

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

See, the problem with this graph is that it implies the weapon somehow makes people commit the assault.

In all the time my handgun's sat in my pants, it has failed to seduce me to the dark side. I've felt zero temptation to knock-over a convenience store, I've never once even pointed my gun at another human being, and I just can't quite overcome my moral sense and flip-out and kill people with anything else, either.

My gun must be broken because it's been pressed into my trousers for a while now and I haven't hurt a single person!

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

I hear you brother. Ted Nugent once quipped: "If guns cause crime, mine are defective".

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

uh, hello? james? do you *seriously* think that your effective assault weapons would really protect you from a government whose military and police machinery is as sophisticated as that of just about any modern state? that part of the 2nd amendment is long since obsolete; the day when a few patriots willing to shed their blood could water tom jefferson's tree of liberty has come and gone. your assault rifles may make you feel more protected, and that's worth something, but they *won't* actually protect you against the force a modern government can bring to bear as a routine matter. have they even protected you from fox news?

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

What you should have done is build the pie chart with all methods of murder and include the "special category" of:

HOMICIDES COMMITTED BY HELLO KITTY AR-15'S = 0%

or how about:

HOMICIDES BY PINK ASSAULT RIFLES = 0%

Since the FBI was so kind to allow those data to be easily exported to Excel, I may produce said pie chart myself in the morning.

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

It's pretty tough to engage a passionate anti-gun person with rational data. I've tried, occasionally.

California recently banned .50 BMG rifles. I can not find a single instance in which one of those has been used in a crime. A weapon standing roughly 6' tall and weighing at least 30 lbs. is not the most practical thing for holding up a liquor store. "But they can take down planes!" So can a well-placed screwdriver. Or pigeon, for that matter.

The anti-gunners are undeterred. It is too easy to dismiss enthusiasts as "nuts" and one of the easiest ways to appear "tough on crime" is to "get guns off the streets." All that we can do is remain the vocal lobby that we are, and talk to people about our hobby in a reasonable, non-militant way to try and help people understand. Don't get political if you can avoid it, they will only tune you out. Describe how passionate you are about your hobby--because that's what it is--and how you would hate to have that taken from you.

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

True....they can only talk about "anti-gun legislation" if there are people are willing to listen. So why not ignore them completely and before you know it, they are just talking to themselves and working themselves up into a frenzy because the rest of the world has turned a deaf ear and eventually doing.....nothing. They may eventually be able to restrict gun sales to what is believed to be a "reasonable extent", but its not like they could ever legally come to our houses and try to take them from us. The right to bear arms "shall not be infringed upon" by the Constitution, and even the most enthusiastic anti-gun politician knows this all to well.

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

Firearms may be a "hobby", but first and foremost they are a natural right which we all have. As a memever of a free society it is our responsibility to be armed.

The term "Assault Rifle" is a red herring; used to incite an ignorant public and to effectively disarm the People.

In 1939 the Supreme Court determined that a person could not use the 2nd amendment as a defense for gun possession unless that gun is of a type used by the military. The gun in question was a sawed-off shotgun, which were used in the tunnels of Vietnam (so, in fact used by the military). But what is the main gun used by the military? Yep, M16, AK47, 50 cal., machine guns, etc.

In 2007 the Supreme Court determined that the second amendment protects an INDIVIDUAL right to own and bear arms.

Putting the two decisions together, we can see that we all have an individual right to own, and carry, any assault weapon, machine gun, 50 cal, etc. It was that way until the 1930's. This is fact not opinion.

When you realize this fact, then the reason for military firearms, as prescribed in the Constitution, becopmes evident - to resist tyrannical force by enemies foreign or domestic, and for self defense. If you go hunting or targe shooting, then that is nice; but besides the point. Anyone who questions the sporting use of a firearm relative to the right to bear arms, doesn't understand the issue, but is playing right into the hands of those who wish opur nation ill (and yes, some of those folks are in the Congress, Senate, and White House).

So .... why all the hub-bub about assault weapons, black guns, etc? Simple - the powers that would like to conquer and subvert the United States of America absolutely must disarm the People beore they can put the New World Order into effect. The more of a 'globalist', or fascist, a person is, the more they want gun control.

The globalist powers can observe how difficult a time the most powerful army in the world has in subduing an area the size of Texas - called Iraq. Imagine trying to conquer and occupy the United States, where there is about one gun per person across the entire nation. This is the real reason that politicians, globalists, and NWO advocates need to disarm the People. Mush-brained fearful liberal sheeple are simply useful idiots in the globalist's efforts.

The solution -
1) If you do not have an 'assault rifle', then buy one. Remember to buy lots of ammunition.
2) Teach your children about the Constitution, the 2nd amendment, and take them shooting. Then they will not be prey for others down the road in life.

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

I like my handguns too. I dont know what I'd do if they tried to take those too, probably move.

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

Interesting post Assault weapons are not the weapons of choice among drug dealers, gang members or criminals in general. Assault weapons are used in about one-fifth of one percent (.20%) of all violent crimes and about one percent in gun crimes. It is estimated that from one to seven percent of all homicides are committed with assault weapons (rifles of any type are involved in three to four percent of all homicides). However a higher percentage are used in police homicides, roughly ten percent. (There has been no consistent trend in this rate from 1978 through 1996.) Between 1992 and 1996 less than 4% of mass murders, committed with guns, involved assault weapons. (Our deadliest mass murders have either involved arson or bombs.)

# re: "Assault Weapons" are rarely used in assaults

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