Should semiautomatic weapons be banned?

[dead0man]

Yes. I've seen no legitimate reason to require weapons explicitly designed for mass killing when there are handguns and other hunting rifles.

Most hunting rifles are semi-automatic.

and only in the early 1970s decided to scrap their common-sense approach and instead decided to pump millions of $ into political campaigns as a lobby group, which changed everything to the worse.

worse?  Gun crime has dropped since then.

Automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines must be completely banned.

Only 1 time since 1934 has a legal automatic weapon been used in a crime (and that was in the 50s).  Making fully automatic weapons more illegal than they are now wouldn't stop any crime at all.

[dead0man]

I wonder what it would cost in blood and coin and missed crimes to have the cops go to every gun owners home in the country every year for "well being" check.  My guess, $500B/year, 863 lives lost (including 424 cops)/year and "thousands"/year.  Hell, they might stumble upon a crime or two!, totally worth it!

Just a silly idea.

[dead0man]

oh, but I suppose if only a few people have guns in this utopia.


I wonder what it would cost in blood, coin and missed crimes to have all the cops round up all the guns in this country.  My guess, $2.8T, 14,724 dead and "millions", that's just the first 5 years....you'd never finish the job.

[dead0man]

It's weird to me, that people who generally seem to be know what they are talking about and are for gun control (there are a couple of them, calm down), still bring up the "gun show loophole" and never bring up straw purchases.  One of these avenues brings lots of guns to bad guys, one of these avenues does not.

[dead0man]

I enjoy the posts that say semiautomatic weapons should be banned because they see semiautomatic weapons as an alternative.

yeah, you'd think since we've done this with the same freaking people about 25 times now that a few of them would understand some of the most important terms when discussing the topic.  You'd also think they would understand more since they are SOOOOOO passionate about gun control.  Sure, it's only one or two times a year for about 2 weeks, but they are REAL passionate about it for those two weeks.  It's the most important thing in the world...at least until Trump posts on Twitter next or they pick up their uncle's book on EMPs.