Centaur 1

I hate to say it but your logic is irrational. I am a law abiding citizen who has worked in the defense industry for over 25 years to help secure the freedoms that we all enjoy. You must enjoy shooting your weapons and going hunting, but the majority of the people in America don't think that you should have that right. Sure an assault weapon has ability to kill a larger number of people at a time, butshould the fact that there are a few crazy people out there be an adequate excuse to take away my civil rights? Using that logic we should ban alcohol, how many people die a year to drunk drivers or alcohol poisoning. Or how about the people who talk on cell phones in cars, or how about just banning cars in general. Yes people died at Columbine and Virginia Tech but does anybody realize that in the United States over 400 people a year die in collisions with concrete mailboxes? More people a year would be saved by creating legislation banning mailboxes that aren't made to breakaway. How about the big one, tobacco. There are approximately 400,000 deaths from tobacco use in the U.S. every single year.

I'm sorry that you don't feel that I don't have a right to own something which I think is fun but I've earned it! So when you destroy all of your guns(any one of which is capable of killing), never take another drink, smoke a cigar or drive a car again then and only then will you have earned the right to criticize others.

And contrary to what you might think, I don't even own an assault rifle or have a concealled weapons permit. But those are choices that I have made for myself, not by someone else.