| killerzX said: well there are many modes of transportation, car arent the only ones. and since car are one of the most deadly thing ever made, they should be banned. furthermore guns are used for much more there killing other people that have guns. first its used all the time to defend against non gun weilding criminals. it is also used for sport, target practice, recreation, hunting, and collecting, etc. much more than just killing gun wielding foes. 2nd point that actual machine gun (it is actually a machine gun, which the media love mis-atributing to an AR-15. was actually quite cheap. after WW1 andWWII people were able to order these things with catalogs from military surplus. it was really quite cheap. furthermore you are no arguing parenting, which i completely agree with you. intodays society we are taught anything goes, and any life style is acceptable, a very moral relitivist society. but that has no bearing on the type of firearms im allowed to buy. it proves that guns arent the problem, its peoples moral code, its parenting, its schooling. 3rd, that AR-15 can shoot no where near 800 rounds per minute. unless of course you can pull that trigger 800 times in that one minute, but something tells me neither you nor I nor anyone else can do that. that thing is just as fast as any other semi-auto out there (which is about 90% of all guns made). and while the hunting rifle shown is a bolt action, there are many many many semi-auto hunting rifles, that shoot just as fast, and shoot a much more powerful round. a 5.56 (.223) is not a very prefered round for killing things, as it is so weak. take this gun for example, it is significantly more deadly than that AR-15 shoots, just as fast, and much more deadly.
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I've seen a full auto AR-15 before on Youtube, but I just found out it was semi-auto. I can't tell the difference between that and an M4 though, my mistake. Think of what could have happened if his weapon was fully automatic though, those types of guns are still legal. Semi-auto is still very deadly, but it's the high capacity mags that make all the difference, 5 rounds and 30 rounds is the difference between a tool and a killing machine.
Cars are personal transportation and personal transportation is needed, especially for the emergency services. Roads are quite safe and cars are getting safer every year, there are only so many deaths on roads because so many people have cars. Banning cars would be like banning obesity, or the internet or making people wear gas masks and bubble wrap suits when they step outside. The problem with guns is that I believe they're far more dangerous than they are useful. This is coming from somebody who loves guns. I want gun laws to be more lenient in my country, but I think even semi-automatic weapons and easily concealed pistols is pushing it. I would sleep much better at night knowing that none of the idiots I know will be able to walk around with a gun.
