2007-08-13 14:40:35 · 14 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Paranoid? Too many movies? A sense of impotence requiring some bolstering? Failure to take an intelligent role in society, with others, to ensure it is less aggressive and potentially dangerous? But of course, that might require a revolution, bloodless or not, in many many things.
2007-08-14 00:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
What's an assault rifle mean to you? Do you mean the lightweight automatic rifles popularized during WWII and modernized since then, or do you just mean anything that looks scary to knee-jerk reactionaries that are anti-gun?
Without a very hard-to -get federal license, you can't get a real assault rifle legally. The other kinds are just semi-automatic rifles (pull the trigger, a bullet comes out) as opposed to single-shot, bolt-action or lever action rifles.
Any one of these in the right hands can kill someone, as can baseball bats, knives, pieces of pipe, bricks, big rocks...
The question is not why would you need one, but why shouldn't you be able to have one? Why do you need an SUV, a big house, a swimming pool, a big wad of cash...? It's a silly question and turns the spirit and wording of the Constitution on its head.
Oh wait, to actually answer your question - all a person "needs" is food, water, air, and shelter. So I suppose you don't "need" a gun, or anything else. But if you have to give up the things you desire or believe you need because someone else doesn't share your desires/likes/beliefs, that sounds like a dictatorship to me.
2007-08-13 14:57:13 · answer #2 · answered by mattzcoz 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-10 04:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the broad, gun-grabbing definition of "assault rifle" which describes as any gun that is "scary looking"?
Or do you mean the technical term of one that has 3 or more additions like a pistol grip, scope and flash muzzler that actually fires fully automatic?
2007-08-13 14:51:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do I have to "need" something to be able to own it?
I don't have to "need" a swimming pool, and people die in them every year.
I don't have to "need" a car, and cars kill more people every year than guns (of all kinds, not just assault rifles) ever have.
I certainly don't "need" a Dodge Daytona R/T Charger with over 460 horsepower, and the ability to triple the national speed limit, but nobody gets upset when I want one.
This is (supposed to be) America, and I don't have to "need" it to own it. See the Bill of Rights.
2007-08-13 16:14:44 · answer #5 · answered by tyrsson58 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Any weapon is an assault weapon when used against another person, even a claw hammer, are we to outlaw claw hammer too? Do we no longer have the right of self defense for us and our families?
2007-08-14 03:17:25 · answer #6 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have the right to possess guns for self defense. Assault rifles have more "defense power".
2007-08-13 18:26:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We'll be needing them when Alberto decides that individual gun ownership is a violation of the Patriot Act.
Guns kill people like spoons make them fat.
A person can have what they want because the Bill of Rights makes that right inalienable.
2007-08-13 15:32:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
If people don't own assault rifles, where are people going to steal them - NRA Headquarters.
2007-08-13 14:44:43 · answer #9 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
For the same reason that the police need them.
2007-08-14 04:57:32 · answer #10 · answered by sirbobby98121 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋