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From: John Slade
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:33
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:33
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On 1/29/2013 5:40 AM, Gandalf Parker wrote:
> John Slade <hhitman86@pacbell.net> contributed wisdom to news:ke7qrt$eas$1
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>> Also California is a bit smarter when it comes
>> to the actual functions of rifles rather than how they look. You
>> can have an AR-15 as long as it's semi-auto. AR-15s are not
>> assault rifles unless they are fully automatic. This is the
>> mistake Obama is making, basically the semi-auto rifles that
>> look like military weapons have the same functionality as
>> hunting rifles and probably at less power.
>
> That is all true.
> Unfortunately its not the purpose that gets it banned. The events they are
> trying to avoid are not usually carried out by hunting rifles. Hunting
> rifles get used for hunting, and military look/feel gets used for sprees.
>
> Maybe a better argument to write them is that if you ban the military
> look/feel guns then people will switch to hunting rifles which are more
> powerful anyway?
Last time I checked about 350 people were killed with
rifles of all kinds in 2010. Yet about 10,700 were killed with
handguns.
The sensational murders get the press and just shapes how
the public feels.
John
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