Cannot go with this analogy, guns are made for killing, AR 15s are made for killing humans, that's what they are designed for. They were originally made to be a weapon of war and that's according to the original designer. It is made to be able to load quickly and fire many shots. Even with the times and our country and civilization being completely different, guns were always to be "well regulated". Trying to be careful about going into politics. Anything that is a danger to me or others needs to have laws attached to it and be regulated, just like we do with many things in our society.
Perhaps we should have more regulations on knives as they account for more than 4 times as many deaths as rifles.
AR15s are marketed for civilians as SEMI-auotmatic rifles, and not designed for killing humans. The military uses M16s which differ due to their selective fire capability which makes them much more effective in war. Sure, ARs were originally designed for the military, but what is available to civilians now (SEMI-auotmatic AR) is not what was originally designed for the military (selective fire). ARs were redesigned for civilian sale, eliminating the selective fire option and making them semi-auto, so saying that civilian marketed semi-auotmatic ARs are designed to kill humans is inaccurate.
In regards to your comment about loading quickly and firing many shots-- many hunting rifles and most handguns can be loaded just as quickly, have similar magazine capacities, and all fire one round per pull of the trigger.
And AR 15s were designed to be weapons of war, to kill even more efficiently, quickly etc. So you cannot in any way compare cars to guns. AR 15s in particular are designed to kill, kill quickly and efficiently and not have to reload etc. so we need better gun laws and maybe some like those need to go.
Again, ARs that civilians can possess are not the same original ARs that were designed for war.
Not have to reload?! Magazines do not hold an infinite number of bullets. While magazine sizes can vary, my AR mag holds 10 rounds whereas my pistol mag holds 11. Reloading really doesn't take much time at all for anyone with experience.
If we actually listened to what is actually being said instead of the propaganda channels, you would see that no one is talking about taking anyone's guns away, and neither are the kids that are protesting right now, just possibly the AR 15 type weapons. I know many many many many people that are intelligent, respectful gun owners like my 91 year old dad who keeps his guns locked in a secure place, who was also an instructor in the army who taught people how to shoot, and even he thinks there should be regulations and no one needs an AR 15.
Why is it though that everyone is so gungho ho about how bad AR15s are? A .762 round has higher foot lbs of force than the standard .223 round in an AR, but the gun control debate never seems to focus on AKs. Many hunting rifles have the same mechanical platform and fire exactly the same as the AR, just without the cosmetic differences like hand guards and pistol grips (which have no bearing on how it fires), but no one's talking about hunting rifles. Hand guns are more concealable and account for 18 times more homicides than rifles of any kind in the US, but again, the focus isn't on them.
The fact is, most people do not understand guns and get wrapped up in what the media is telling them. Putting such a focus on ARs makes no logical sense. A semi-auto weapon is not a military style automatic weapon and will only fire one round per pull of the trigger, regardless of whether it's a semi-auto hunting rifle, semi-auto handgun, or semi-auto AR15. Either you're okay with semi-auto guns being legal or you're not. Regulating that criminals and those with certain mental illnesses can't own them is a completely different issue and should be enforced better, as this latest shooting has shown, but to focus on trying to ban one particular gun doesn't make any sense.
Do average people own AR 15s now is that the norm in your world?
What do you mean by this statement? Yes, plenty of average people own AR15s in the US, and the vast majority of those people obtain them legally and do no harm with them.
Isnt this whole thing about trying to prevent death?
