@Blickers,
Quote:Everybody knows that an assault rifle is a semiauto or auto rifle that physically resembles a military style weapon.
Physically resembles? So it's about the looks and nothing more. Since semi-auto rifles can only fire one bullet with every trigger squeeze, it isn't in the same class of weapon as the "military" automatics. If they were the same, they would have been covered under the 1986 restrictions.
Quote:That's why deranged mass shooters, when given the choice between the assault style semiauto and the conventional style semiauto always choose the assault style rifle.
Tell that to the dead people who were killed by a mass shooter and didn't use a semi-auto rifle, like the reporters who were killed yesterday with a shotgun, just like the kids killed at that TX school.
Quote:Because it looks scarier. Because it enhances their sense of power of drama as they take out as many innocent people as they can before the cops finally get them-or until they chicken out and let themselves get captured. And these are reasons-not the only reasons, but sufficient reasons-that assault style semiauto rifles must be banned forthwith.
You are saying we should ban a gun because of how it looks...
Quote:You continue to embarrass yourself. You and the rest of the pro-gun people have been telling us how stupid we supposedly are for not realizing there is no difference between an assault-style semiauto rifle and a regular semiauto rifle, and now you're backing off and saying that there actually is no such thing as an assault style semiauto.
There is no such thing as an "assault style" semi-auto. That's what we have been trying to point out. The only embarrassment that has taken place is the number of times you have tried to slip meaningless phrases into the gun debate based off of nothing but something looks scary. There is zero operational difference between what you call an "assault rifle" and a semi-auto rifle, it's the use of a BS term we object to.
What's the difference between a Ruger Ranch Rifle and an AR-15? You never answer this question.
Quote:It doesn't help your case much when it is obvious that an assault style rifle and a deer rifle definitely look different.
See, you are doing it again why are you trying to confuse people? A deer rifle is typically a bolt action rifle that fires a much larger round than the standard semi-auto rifle. In fact "deer rifles" are far more dangerous than the standard AR-15, the bullets can do far greater damage.
