re: #648 McSpiff

I absolutely understand the difference, but thanks for being an asshole anyways. I would never advocate a ban on something as narrow as semi-automatic weapons. That’s dumb, we both agree. What needs to be looked at is the availability of weapons designed to fire a large number of rounds in as short of a time as possible, with in some cases an added element of concealment. 5 round semi-auto long-gun style deer hunting rifle like the M1 or 742 is very different from something like the civilian model, semi-auto M4s or TEC-9s. But I’m sure you already understood that.

What Rupert is doing is muddying the water, if not just being an idiot. Truly automatic weapons are already heavily regulated, they’re not being used to gun down civilians. This is where we get into situations like the “Assault Weapon Ban,” which ended up being rightfully ridiculed for going after weapons because they looked scary rather than their capacity for being use to commit murder on a large scale in a short period of time.