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'll tell you where we are actually headed on this. You're obviously concerned about the issue.
We're going to have a thousand schools where administrators and teachers are packing, and a whole lot more where they are not packing heat.
And we're going to see where the crazy loons go to do their shooting.
Betcha I can tell you where.
Then a whole lot more of those where they are not allowed to carry are going to fix their stupidity.
And that, my friend, has nothing at all to do with "assault rifle" or "assault pistol" or "scary gun" or any other lame misunderstanding of the issue or reframing of the problem for liberal control freak objectives.