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Re: Are assault weapons more or less dangerous than pistols?
Their function is not what the media reports as "dangerous," however. I actually heard Alan Colmes claim that folding stocks and pistol grips make guns fire faster. That is just plain ignorant.
A folded stock and a pistol grip turns a 36 inch rifle into a 28 inch rifle that cannot be fired accurately and still isn't concealable. That's like outlawing cars that can go over 200 mph for safety reasons, even though the speed limit is already set well below that.
The ONLY point anti-gun rhetoric can score is on the point of magazines, and they are stopping that debate at an arbitrary number that is nothing more than an empty gesture. If they want to forward the debate that magazines themselves should be outlawed, then lets have that debate. Until then, all of these measures are just designed to enact control for the sake of control, not to actually address any of the problems that the anti-gun side sees in the issue.
I have a suspicion that you intended on refuting my claim but everything you said supports my claim that those features have a function and are not purely cosmetic
Their function is not what the media reports as "dangerous," however. I actually heard Alan Colmes claim that folding stocks and pistol grips make guns fire faster. That is just plain ignorant.
A folded stock and a pistol grip turns a 36 inch rifle into a 28 inch rifle that cannot be fired accurately and still isn't concealable. That's like outlawing cars that can go over 200 mph for safety reasons, even though the speed limit is already set well below that.
The ONLY point anti-gun rhetoric can score is on the point of magazines, and they are stopping that debate at an arbitrary number that is nothing more than an empty gesture. If they want to forward the debate that magazines themselves should be outlawed, then lets have that debate. Until then, all of these measures are just designed to enact control for the sake of control, not to actually address any of the problems that the anti-gun side sees in the issue.