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Originally Posted by Annie66
Are we going to parse words here? I believe most readers understood my definition of an assault weapon as a semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine capable of firing a high rate of fire. Heinous crimes can be defined as any crime resulting serious injuries or death; often to multiple people. The injures can be either physical or mental damage as a result of the event.
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Ok, some would say that an "assault weapon" is any weapon capable of being used to "assault" someone. That would include but not be limited to, muskets, hunting rifles, swords, knives, bb and pellet guns, arrows, spears, baseball bats, axes, screw drivers (used in NY subway in one incident that was in the news), sharpened toothbrushes (as used in jails) whips, chains, etc. The definition is dependent upon the opinion of whomever decides to define "assault weapon." Let's not forget hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, acid, automobiles. Although, for the convenience of the unlearned, an assault weapon defined here is any spooky gun with a plastic stock that looks like a military gun and fires noisy bullets, and pistols that look complicated and fire more than five bullets by other means than manually loading a bullet into the chamber in order to fire it.
A "heinous" crime could be anything from taking a life to saying something mean to someone.
To those of us that have some (if limited) experience with firearms, an assault weapon would be an automatic firing weapon that fires more than one round per single application of the trigger. A semi-automatic weapon does NOT fire more than one round per trigger pull.
It is usually the subject ignorant person that wishes to ban something they have no comprehension of, which also causes them fear and apprehension.