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Originally Posted by waynet
We had a good discussion. We have agreed not to agree. My last comment is a very simple one. No one in America should own or want a weapon that allows them to take 50 innocent lives in the blink of an eye. Hunt with something else. As I wrote earlier if you need 30 rounds to to kill an animal find another sport. And yes the major of weapons were on the original ban. And yes the AR15 is a weapon of mass destruction. Ask the families of Sandy Hook CT and see what answer you get. You want to give everybody guns,fine, I do not. As for Iraq and Syria I do not want to see more American lives wasted. And so far they have been wasted by previous Presidents.
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You persist in failing to acknowledge that
bans are ineffective. If bans worked we wouldn't have a drug problem or several million illegal aliens in our country.
You also obviously don't know that hunters don't use thirty round magazines. Five round magazines are made for a variety of semi-automatic hunting rifles. That's generally the limit in most states, just as shotguns are limited to three rounds when hunting ducks.
The Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifle was introduced in
1911. One of these, with a detachable 20 round magazine, was used by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer in the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde. It is as deadly as the AR-15 but was never banned because it doesn't
look like a military weapon. So you don't hear a hue and cry to ban it. It's all cosmetics.
"Weapons of mass destruction" has a precise meaning. No firearms are included. A weapon of mass destruction is a chemical, biological or radioactive weapon capable of causing widespread death and destruction.
Are you saying that you don't want to see ISIS crushed? That will mean continued attacks on American soil.