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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will someone please explain the need for anyone, other than law enforcement, to posses an AK-47 or any assult weapon, particularly one with an expanded magazine.  
If you're a hunter and require an assault weapon to take down your prey perhaps a little target practice is called for.  
The only real reason to own an assault  and what they are  designed to do is to kill people.  
Why body armor is for sale to the general public defies common sense[/quote]
I won't defend the extended magazine which in this case is a drum or drums. The assault weapon qua weapon is less deadly than any real hunting rifle. It is intended as an anti personnel weapon foremost. Why allow them? Primarily as a check on the power of government and law enforcement. And I don't want politicians passing a weapon ban and then congratulating themselves when, in reality, we need to do a better job of keeping weapons of all kinds out of the hands of the mentally ill. For example Cho at Virginia Tech should have been reported years earlier. But because of our concern about appearing to discriminate against the mentally ill, it never happened. It should have. I don't know about Holmes,a though.[/quote]

How on earth would we have done it in this case?  We would have to report every student with bad grades to a national registry.  It is clear that while mentally ill people may commit acts of violence, a very small proportion of those will be people with a diagnosed medical condition.

And my guess is that you wouldn't want a federal registry to know that you have depression or anxiety, or have a prescription for prozac.  [/quote]

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