Assault Weapons Ban

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Option 4.

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Well, the question is really does it do any good? I say it doesn't. Criminals who want such weapons will attain them - criminals don't care about the law, so don't expect them to follow it.

Now, one can argue that ordinary people shouldn't have automatic or semi-automatic weapons, but I think people should. The question I ask is should they be allowed to carry them around? With fully automatic weapons, I believe things like that should be kept in the house, not being carried around. Such weapons exceed general everyday needs for self-defense(your common street thug wants a weapon that can be concealed, not something that says 'HEY I'M CRAZY, YOU BETTER AVOID ME'), but in the unlikely, yet possible, events of a foreign invasion or tyrannical government, such weapons become necessary to defend life, liberty, and property.

Funny, since we banned fully automatic weapons, I don't see a lot of criminals out there committing crimes with them.  Almost all the gun crime in the country is committed with weapons that are legal for a person to own.

And were stolen from the rightful owner. Of course most Democrats would love to ban guns because it would prevent the peoples right of revolution.

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Terrorists with assault weapons. Thanks, Bush.

Get real, ok?

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Well, the question is really does it do any good? I say it doesn't. Criminals who want such weapons will attain them - criminals don't care about the law, so don't expect them to follow it.

Now, one can argue that ordinary people shouldn't have automatic or semi-automatic weapons, but I think people should. The question I ask is should they be allowed to carry them around? With fully automatic weapons, I believe things like that should be kept in the house, not being carried around. Such weapons exceed general everyday needs for self-defense(your common street thug wants a weapon that can be concealed, not something that says 'HEY I'M CRAZY, YOU BETTER AVOID ME'), but in the unlikely, yet possible, events of a foreign invasion or tyrannical government, such weapons become necessary to defend life, liberty, and property.

Funny, since we banned fully automatic weapons, I don't see a lot of criminals out there committing crimes with them.  Almost all the gun crime in the country is committed with weapons that are legal for a person to own.

And were stolen from the rightful owner. Of course most Democrats would love to ban guns because it would prevent the peoples right of revolution.

If those guns had never had a legal owner, they wouldn't be in the hands of criminals right now.  They would never have even been manufactured.

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Um, yes they would be and would have.

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Well, the question is really does it do any good? I say it doesn't. Criminals who want such weapons will attain them - criminals don't care about the law, so don't expect them to follow it.

Now, one can argue that ordinary people shouldn't have automatic or semi-automatic weapons, but I think people should. The question I ask is should they be allowed to carry them around? With fully automatic weapons, I believe things like that should be kept in the house, not being carried around. Such weapons exceed general everyday needs for self-defense(your common street thug wants a weapon that can be concealed, not something that says 'HEY I'M CRAZY, YOU BETTER AVOID ME'), but in the unlikely, yet possible, events of a foreign invasion or tyrannical government, such weapons become necessary to defend life, liberty, and property.

Funny, since we banned fully automatic weapons, I don't see a lot of criminals out there committing crimes with them.  Almost all the gun crime in the country is committed with weapons that are legal for a person to own.

And were stolen from the rightful owner. Of course most Democrats would love to ban guns because it would prevent the peoples right of revolution.

If those guns had never had a legal owner, they wouldn't be in the hands of criminals right now.  They would never have even been manufactured.

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Um, yes they would be and would have.

Why would they have been manufactured?  Who would they have been sold to?  How many automatic weapons are manufactured today that aren't specifically commissioned by the military or law enforcement?

They would have come across the mexican border. I know weapons are smuggled over the border from experience.

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People kept muskets in their homes in the 18th Century. In that time and day a musket was considered an "assault" weapon due to the fact that it was a weapon used by the military.