Does "assault weapon" mean anything that can be used as a weapon to assault another person? Like baseball bats, 2x4s, steak knives, cars, steel pipes, odd objects d'art, folding chairs, fertilizer, fire arms, etc? Sounds extreme to ban all of those things. Maybe we should just outlaw murder and assault.
Oh yeah? Sure its for self defense. What if someone gets an assault rifle for the purpose of "self defense" and then uses that to kill someone? Sure other people with guns might kill the aggressor. But what if that guy already killed someone? Just one person. What if that person was you? Or one of your family members?
And that
stupid argument that says we need to outlaw every other thing that could kill or harm people (i.e. gravity, knives, bats) if we ban assault weapons. Just think this way. If you were going to kill a bunch of kids in a school, what would be your weapon of choice? A knife? A shotgun? A pistol? A piece of wood?
Maybe something that can spit out the most projectiles per second? i.e.
An assault rifle? I made no such argument. I asked for a definition of "assault weapon" and then threw out one possible definition.
So once "assault weapons" are banned, then what? Mass killings by warped minds will still take place. Do you think the body count will drop? And the 2nd ammemdment isn't (only) there just so people can "self defend" in simple one-on-one crimes. It's part of the whole government derived from the people concept. The people should have the power, not the government.
Also, if you need to resort to debasing adjectives to prop up your logic, then you probably need to re-evaluate your logic.