[CaptainCrunch]

Just to throw a couple of things in here.

With the AR15, there's this misnomer that its a super assault rifle, and its really not, while it has a good muzzle velocity which I think is about 2800 feet per second (I compare that to the FN that I fired in the military which was about 2350 feet per second) because the AR-15 uses a smaller less dynamic round it has less stopping power then the standard assault rifle like the AK-47.

However here's the rub.

The AR-15 is probably a better weapon in an enclosed urban space because its light weight, it has good springs to eat recoil so you can be more accurate, its more of a point and click weapon then heavier assault rifles. On top of that even in the semi auto it tends to be more accurate as you put more rounds down field faster. With a heavier weapon with a heavier round, as you start firing recoil will make you punch holes in the sky, you need to be physically stronger to use them.

Personally to me, I question the need for any semi automatic weapon in the hands of a civilian. I don't buy the whole home defense thing as having a fire arm emboldens a lot of people to go towards trouble instead of I don't know, moving away from trouble. It creates the whole culture of "Rambo's got this".

If you want to have effective gun control, then you limit the Civilian availability to front load muskets and flint based pistols.

I get what you're saying about the magazine mods, but the simpler solution is to only allow weapons with 0 magazine capacities where you have to manually load a single bullet.

Oh and in my mind, at that point if you're caught with a prohibited weapon we blow up your house.

There's a responsibility to fire arms ownership, but there are too many idiots out there to really trust anyone at this point, a gun does kill people, its a machine its designed to punch big bloody fatal holes in things, regardless of the idiot that's using it, that's what its designed for. Anyone that thinks that guns are merely designed as a recreational tool to shoot paper targets is fooling themselves.

Guns should not be in the home to me, they shouldn't be in the hands of mentally deranged people, they certainly shouldn't be in the hands of career criminals or anyone with a criminal record, they shouldn't be in the hands of some 18 year old gangbanger with a over valued sense of worth.

I used to be on the side of gun owners, that they need them to defend their homes, but to me that's absolute trash, because we see accidental shootings, or drunken shootings, or kids finding guns and shooting.

Guns in the hands of the untrained are going to do what they're designed to do, put a bullet downrange with no ability to call it back.

I grew up in a house with a dad who had a pistol for home defense, in Canada, it was a small .22 semi auto pistol with a 6 round clip in it, and I've got to tell you, when I came home from basic on leave, I took that pistol away from my dad, drove it to the police station and asked them to get rid of it. First of all, there was no need, second of all, while my day is a fairly rational, calm guy, I don't know how his untrained self is going to react in a chaotic situation without all of the information, with a emboldening weapon in his hand.

Flintlocks and muskets