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I really wish gun-control advocates would not use terms like "assault-style weapons". What is an assault-style weapon? It sounds like it might be something scary and associated with war, but it's not a technical term. It's not even a term that actually means anything specific. Saying it makes the speaker sound ignorant and inspires absolutely no confidence that whatever law is being proposed makes any reasonable distinctions between which weapons should be legal and which should be illegal.
Just goes to show how big of a portion of gun control advocates don’t fully understand the thing they are trying to control.
I myself own firearms and am also a gun control supporter but so much of the attempts to control end up being quite ineffective and not impactful to what they are trying to stop/limit.
I get it though, at this point emotional decisions and motivations are unavoidable. Combine that with republicans actively trying to destroy gun control new and old, it’s no wonder people end up with a less informed but just as strong take in the opposite direction.
So like should we define them based on theoretical murders per minute they could achieve!
Possibly. The gun used in Las Vegas was a "semiautomatic". Fitted with a bump stock it shoots like a fully automatic. So the fire rate could be a useful tool.
Maybe we could compare them to other deadly things like a car or a knife?
Cars and knives have many uses. As far as I can tell, guns have four and half of those involve either killing or threatening to kill someone. The other two are target shooting and hunting, both of which have resulted in people being killed.
Not exactly comparable to cars and knives.
Maybe swords then?
That would certainly be a fairer comparison, although I am guessing the number of people killed by swords in this country is far lower than the number killed by guns.