Reagan on gun control

How did that work out for our latest gun free zone victims where the criminal chose to ignore existing law(s)?

I'll just start by saying I own a lot of guns and they are all hunting style weapons. I don't really ever shoot them, I don't really like them, and I don't consider them a prize possession. They aren't even in my will because I don't care who gets them. They are in the safe, when I go have at them. I have them because it's America, I'm a hunter, and I have the means to buy as many as I ever feel the need. I'm pro gun, not a gun nut.

Having said that the 2nd Amendment was singed into law in 1791. The closed cartridge bullet wasn't even really a thing in this country yet. People had muskets that fired one ball extremely inaccurately and took over a minute to load. A semi-automatic AR-15 would have been a weapon of mass destruction in 1791, period. No fucking way would the average person be allowed to legally have one in those times. It's the reason why you can't have a 7.62 mini-gun mounted to the side of your car today. It's why you can't buy an RPG right now.

Assault rifles, 9 round capacity shotguns, and handguns with a magazine over 10 rounds have no practical use for a law abiding citizen. Zero. Other than the kind of human being that would own a pit bull no one is using an assault rifle to hunt big game. No burglar needs over 10 rounds to take down. You can only have three to four rounds in your shotgun when you hunt for anything anywhere.

An AR-15 with a 30 round clip is a WMD as shown in the Colorado theater shooting. A massive pistol magazine is a WMD as shown in the Tucson shooting when Gabby Giffords was shot along with countless more. Kip Kinkle with a Ruger 10/22 and a banana clip fucked up Thurston High pretty badly.

Can a mass of people with bolt action rifles, like say a well regulated militia still fuck up an enemy foreign or domestic? Absolutely.

People don't want weapons that can kill a crowd of people without having to reload because of protection. They like them because they are cool. The people bitching about the ban of assault rifles and high capacity magazines wouldn't have their life changed in any real actual way if they were gone tomorrow.

Practical guns should never even be looked at when talking about gun control. A gun that can wipe out a theater full of people without a magazine change doesn't need to be in the public's hands.