There is zero need for motorcycles. Yet, you have one. There is zero need for a car with more than four cylinders that can go faster than 60mph. Yet, there they are, all over the place. The world where you only have things you need is a rather drab place.
You should also speak for yourself rather than presuming to speak for everyone. If you don't need one, that does not at all mean that nobody needs one.
Now that we're done with the silly "need" stuff, here are a couple of facts:
1. There is no such thing as a "semi-auto assault rifle". Assault rifles are select-fire by definition. There are guns that look like assault rifles, but function same as any other semi-auto.
2. Select-fire and full-auto firearms are tightly regulated. Since the Prohibition they have been used in crime twice, one of which was a murder committed by a police officer.
There is more to hunting than just deer. AR-style rifles are not typically used for deer, but are widely used for varminting and pest control.
That I can agree with.
Actually, they don't. Semi-auto rifles figure in a very small percentage of widely publicized shootings.
Some of the bloodiest mass murders have been committed with no guns at all. Korea has strict gun control. Yet, a nutcase killed 198 (that's one hundred ninety eight) and injured 147 people with nothing more than two milk cartons full of gasoline. It's known as the Daegu Subway Fire.
What do you think the death toll would have been if this guy chained the doors, sprayed the theater with gas and set it on fire?
You are awfully confident in your marksmanship under stress. Try shooting under mild stress, such as a timer. Your confidence might suffer.
Also, I somehow doubt that if the Korean shopkeepers during the LA riots were armed with 5-shot revolvers rather than AR rifles their shops would have fared quite aswell as they did.
In other words, you don't have any interest in the matter. Why do you make such weighty pronouncements? You are probably lucky to live someplace safe. Not everybody is lucky that way. There are people that, for instance, deliver pizza in the inner cities for a living.
And on several occasions, they have. Appalachian School of Law, New Life Church, to name a couple.
You say that like it's a good thing.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think traffic rules are bad. I do think control of everything for the sake of control is simply awful. Many of these "laws of all kinds" are just senseless.
There was no Internet when the Constitution was written, either. Does freedom of speech only apply to spoken word and writing with a quill?
