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CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 07:01 PM Mar 2015

There are a multitude of reasons why people need access to semi automatic weapons

With large magazines that allow them to shoot 10+,20+,30+ rounds without reloading. Here are those reasons:

Zombie rampages. It takes literally hundreds of rounds to even slow them down. A semi automatic weapon will buy you enough time to escape to the safety of an abandoned mansion.

Red Dawn. There have been multiple versions of this, but in each, it was a few heavily outnumbered gun owners that defeated Superpower militaries who attacked America.

Post-apocalypse hunting for those with poor marksmanship. People that can't shoot need to eat too, let's give them a chance.

I may have overlooked some other reasons, but I think these are the primary ones.

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There are a multitude of reasons why people need access to semi automatic weapons (Original Post) CreekDog Mar 2015 OP
Unfortunately, the people who clamor for these weapons probably believe those valerief Mar 2015 #1
+1 daleanime Mar 2015 #4
So true. TreasonousBastard Mar 2015 #2
A swarm of stoned bunny rabbits (only applies in Utah). Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #3
Fire Ants. Takes lots of bullets to destroy one single mound nt Xipe Totec Mar 2015 #5
Thank you. That advice is often overlooked. CreekDog Mar 2015 #7
Grey Dawn too Politicalboi Mar 2015 #6
Semi auto firearms prevent Ebola. flamin lib Mar 2015 #8
And I bet... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #13
4. Aristus Mar 2015 #9
The Powers That Be want to have the rednecks armed. rhett o rick Mar 2015 #10
K&R billh58 Mar 2015 #11
I'd rather not live in a world Flying Squirrel Mar 2015 #12
Needed to open more than one window: freshwest Mar 2015 #14

valerief

(53,235 posts)
1. Unfortunately, the people who clamor for these weapons probably believe those
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 07:05 PM
Mar 2015

things are likely scenarios.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
3. A swarm of stoned bunny rabbits (only applies in Utah).
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 07:13 PM
Mar 2015

• Communist Mutants from Outer Space.
• Giant radioactive mutant ants.
• On Edit: What? didn't you ever see The Birds? If those suckers gang up on us we're toast!

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
7. Thank you. That advice is often overlooked.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 07:21 PM
Mar 2015

When attacked by fire ants, aim for the mound, not the individual ants.

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
8. Semi auto firearms prevent Ebola.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 07:24 PM
Mar 2015

My brother owns several AK and AR knock offs and nobody in our extended family has Ebola. Plain as the nose on yer face.

Aristus

(66,294 posts)
9. 4.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 09:07 PM
Mar 2015
Men With Little Tiny Ding-A-Lings And A Need To Massively Overcompensate - They are everywhere, but tend to cluster in rural areas, especially in the South, where they have never been able to wash away the smell of loser after surrendering to the armed government troops trying to take away their slaves. Having to go out and put in an honest day's work for a change is often assuaged by ownership of deadly, but essentially useless military-style weaponry. Phenotype includes beards, beer-bellies, pickup trucks, the slavery flag, and a chronic bad-attitude.
 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
10. The Powers That Be want to have the rednecks armed.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 09:28 PM
Mar 2015

The PTB would love to see the Black Community rebel against the obvious attempts to kill or imprison them. The PTB know they can count on the idiots with guns to use them against such an outbreak. As long as we are fighting amongst ourselves, we are not fighting the Oligarchs.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
11. K&R
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 09:47 PM
Mar 2015

This falls into the "truth is sometimes stranger than fiction" category, especially when you look at it from an ignorant gun humper's point-of-view (see Survivalist's Digest for further details).

 

Flying Squirrel

(3,041 posts)
12. I'd rather not live in a world
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 09:49 PM
Mar 2015

Where I'd have to use semi-automatic weapons on former neighbors to defend my food and silver hoard. I'd turn the weapon on myself first.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
14. Needed to open more than one window:
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 03:08 AM
Mar 2015
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