Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 23:04:15 -0400
From: “Elliot M. Cramer”
Subject: firearm friendly community?
Karen writes:
” Anytime there are guns in the hands of angry people, someone ends up getting hurt. Or dead.”
Nonsense; angry people are much more likely to kill someone with a car; the chances of someone getting intentionally shot with a rifle is very small
“Assault with a deadly weapon is a serious crime. ”
Yes, but any assault is a serious crime
“Referring to a deadly weapon as an “AR” is tacitly admitting that it isn’t friendly. It does nothing to diminish the fact that it is an Automatic Rifle, an assault weapon that is intended to rapidly and repeatedly fire. Indiscriminately. At a moving target, or a crowd of people. A very deadly weapon. Appropriate for use in a combat zone.”
No; Colt then started selling the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_rifle semi-automatic version of the M16 rifle as the Colt AR-15 for civilian sales in 1963 and the term has been used to refer to semiautomatic-only versions of the rifle since then.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15#cite_note-9
Colt then started selling the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_riflesemi-automatic version of the M16
It is NOT an automatic rifle. Automatic rifles are illegal for civilian use in the US
“Why anyone would want to live in a combat zone, I have no idea. ”
I know of NO ONE who lives in a combat zone in the US. I am not a fan of the NRA but you need to get your facts straight
“But if you want to live in a “firearm friendly community” and you think owning an assault rifle is the best way to defend yourself, then a combat zone is a much more accurate description of the kind of community you imagine living in. Hardly what I would call “friendly.”
Semiautomatic rifles will never be illegal in the US because they are basically hunting rifles; murder by rifle is extraordinarily rare; pistols are much more effective and can be easily concealed.
We have very good gun laws in North Carolina regulating them.