Reply #143: The ability to kill in a short time is a poor metric

[raimius]

I could easily kill dozens with my Subaru or a home-made bomb, but no one here is advocating the banning of scary looking cars or 20lb propane cylinders!
My AR-15 is for sporting purposes and currently locked in a bunker (no joke). Why do you want to ban it, again?

Let's look at this from a different perspective:

Cost/benefit of another AWB
Cost: several million dollars in law-enforcement, the criminalization of nonviolent citizens, the reduction of sport shooting and hunting (although many hunters would simply switch firearms), a reduction in the ability of the average citizen to make their own choices...(democratic control of congress...)
Benefit: Forcing criminals to commit a crime by using an illegal firearm or use a different firearm to commit the same violent crime. Overall crime reduction: zero