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An AR-15 is like duck hunting with a rocket launcher.

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Background checks and 5-day waiting periods are not unreasonable. Nor do people need assault rifles, semi-automatics, etc.

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Background checks and 5-day waiting periods are not unreasonable.

Unsubstantiated opinion.

*chuckle* As is yours.

Who needs an assault rifle in a hurry (that should be able to get one)?

Who would need an assault rifle but not training in its use (short of previous training)?

Let be honest, most of those guns are made for illiterate peasants---load, point, shoot. Only rocket science is rocket science, amirite?

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I really did say it was preferable in that situation just like you did. Has there ever been a mass murder stopped by a civilian with a gun?

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But to the NRA, complete deregulation is more important than lives.

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You can call them what you wish, a gun like the AR-15 is used for killing, not really used to hunt deer now is it?

Imagine squirrel hunting with one?

Taking out a few fuzzy bunnies?

Nope, made for target practice, killing people or showing off....doesn't work too well for other things...

For home defense, a shotgun would work MUCH better...point in the general direcction and the blast and shot pattern would certainly be a deterent

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Pearl Mississippi?...are you discussing the school shooting?

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The AR-15 used in Colorado for example was designed and built for the US military.....I'd say that makes it an assault weapon....The military rarely buys weapons not made to KILL PEOPLE....I'd say killing is indeed assault.

You can make your own definitions but it doesn't make them official. M16's are produced for the military, theAR15 is a semi-auto look alike produced for civillians.

Bullshit

Armalite made the AR-15 to sell to the military. The entire history of the AR-15 is tied to selling a rifle to the US military. The immediate predecessor to the AR-15 was the AR-10 (essentially a 7.62N weapon that looks almost exactly like an AR-15) which was rejected by the US Army back in th 1950's. The AR-15 was developed at the direct request of General Willard Wyman as an entrant to the .223 caliber weapon program.

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As the kid was leaving, and AFTER he had already shot 9 kids, killing two.....just a tad bit late....and all the assistant principal did was detain him....didn't stop anything, the damage was done, the kid was leaving the school....I guess it is possible he might have stopped the kid from shooting anyone on his drive home, assuming he would have done so?

[/quotThe kid quit when he saw the assistant principle with a gun. The reasoin it took so long to stop him was that the assit priciple had to rum over a quarter mile to get his gun since the law required that trhe gun be 1000 ft from the school rack up some dead kids to a gun law.

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The AR-15 used in Colorado for example was designed and built for the US military.....I'd say that makes it an assault weapon....The military rarely buys weapons not made to KILL PEOPLE....I'd say killing is indeed assault.

You can make your own definitions but it doesn't make them official. M16's are produced for the military, theAR15 is a semi-auto look alike produced for civillians.

Bullshit

Armalite made the AR-15 to sell to the military. The entire history of the AR-15 is tied to selling a rifle to the US military. The immediate predecessor to the AR-15 was the AR-10 (essentially a 7.62N weapon that looks almost exactly like an AR-15) which was rejected by the US Army back in th 1950's. The AR-15 was developed at the direct request of General Willard Wyman as an entrant to the .223 caliber weapon program.

Thanks for the little tid big on gun history but what I stated is correct. The M 16 is military and the Ar 15 is a semi auto look alike. So bullshit on your bullshit.

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But to the NRA, complete deregulation is more important than lives.

I own guns and think the NRA is insane.

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But to the NRA, complete deregulation is more important than lives.

I own guns and think the NRA is insane.

Without the NRA You would have been regulated to muzzle loaders long time ago.

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But to the NRA, complete deregulation is more important than lives.

I own guns and think the NRA is insane.

Without the NRA You would have been regulated to muzzle loaders long time ago.

Maybe. But, they're as guilty of letting their knees jerk them around as the anti-gun folks.

But, since muzzle loaders started as a military weapon, they'd get classified as an assault weapon.

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The AR-15 used in Colorado for example was designed and built for the US military.....I'd say that makes it an assault weapon....The military rarely buys weapons not made to KILL PEOPLE....I'd say killing is indeed assault.

You can make your own definitions but it doesn't make them official. M16's are produced for the military, theAR15 is a semi-auto look alike produced for civillians.

Bullshit

Armalite made the AR-15 to sell to the military. The entire history of the AR-15 is tied to selling a rifle to the US military. The immediate predecessor to the AR-15 was the AR-10 (essentially a 7.62N weapon that looks almost exactly like an AR-15) which was rejected by the US Army back in th 1950's. The AR-15 was developed at the direct request of General Willard Wyman as an entrant to the .223 caliber weapon program.

Thanks for the little tid big on gun history but what I stated is correct. The M 16 is military and the Ar 15 is a semi auto look alike. So bullshit on your bullshit.

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Without the NRA You would have been regulated to muzzle loaders long time ago.

Without the NRA, people would be buying guns responsibly, with waiting periods and background checks, and not stocking up at gun shows -- like Holmes just did.