The cycle of fear that drives assault weapon sales

[jimmy the one]

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sari: After vets I think the biggest amount of buyers are those who look on it as an investment or feel that if there is so much of a push to ban them, it must somehow be better than other rifles.

Surely you must realize the ridiculous logic in those buying for your latter reason? do people go out en masse & purchase things banned by the govt? in general? no of course not, they tend to think the govt is banning them for a valid reason.

Eleanors38 Fear and pre-occupation with sexual identity is an obsession with gun-controllers...

Which nra certified psychiatrist said that?

el: Historically, the civilian population takes up the arms style and action the military had in the LAST war, then modifies that arm with bells & whistles. The big change in this dynamic is the military's advance to full-auto, while the civilian population had reached stasis with WW II (and earlier) technologies: Semi-auto fire.

The m16 was developed in good part to provide a lightweight semi-auto & automatic rifle which used lightweight .223 bullets rather than larger calibers, so that infantry could carry lotsa ammo with less energy drain while marching or on patrol.
Explain to me why this rationale is needed in american communities? where do ordinary americans go 'on patrol' for extended time periods where carrying an m16 would offset carrying a concealed handgun or open rifle? (hunting is disallowed since several states already disallow m16 clones for hunting.)

el: If I were a couple of decades younger, I would probably choose an AR 15 "lower" and 2 "uppers:" One for using relatively inexpensive .223 ammo, one for larger & more powerful rounds for big-game hunting. Screw the fear & machismo crap, I'll take economy and flexibility any day.

deny it all you like, you & sari think it's a cool & macho thing, if you indeed own or plan to purchase an assault rifle. And that's giving you benny of the doubt.

bossy: and this is why the debate goes nowhere because people like you try to label gun owners as some "fearful immature children" who are living in a different reality. You do the debate no good with your comments.

I"m the reason, the guncontrol debate goes nowhere? for calling gun owners 'fearful immature children'?
Observe how I labelled gun owners 'fearful immature children':

There is no 'real' fear by ordinary americans of having to use an assault rifle to get the better of any criminal or gang, except to weak pathetic minds like wayno's. Who really falls for wayno's idiocy, except weak pathetic minds?
-- There is no real fear of needing an assault rifle by ordinary americans, cause they realize most 'lesser' rifles, most handguns, a shotgun or even a looks real fake gun will do the trick in protecting their homes, as much or better than an assault rifle would.
Ordinary americans fear the carnage an assault rifle can do, either intentionally or unexpectedly, more than they fear the consequences of not owning one.

I'm the reason the guncontrol debate goes nowhere, & not other people twisting about what I say?