Reply #131: Your view is too utilitarian.

[chrisa]

People use Assault Rifles, as well as other weapons for target shooting. Banning anything, imo, is almost always a knee-jerk, fear-driven reaction / decision fueled by the media. Of all the things I'm afraid of, somebody bursting in here with an assault rifle, or any type of gun (or bursting in at all) is at the bottom of the list.

"Will you need to 20, 30, 100 dead per month? How many is unacceptable?"

That's somewhat of a ridiculous statement, imo, as if we "need" X amount of people to die per month before we know to ban something. Do you really think criminals go and buy their guns at the store weeks before doing robberies, etc, where there would be a record there that they just bought the gun? How smart would that be? Also, Assault rifles run for thousands of dollars new, never mind the high costs of ammo.