I was expecting him to say we should "ban assault rifles"
right, but the vast majority of gun deaths are by handgun, so what good would that accomplish?
I mean, I agree, but we can't own assault rifles as civilians in the first place. Unless you have a Class 3 Permit Tax Stamp allowing you to own a burst or fully automatic weapon, which has an extremely thorough background check, sometimes a half-year waiting period, and the gun has to be designed before 1986. So no modern M4's, no H&K416s (although I plan on buying the semi-automatic version of that carbine someday, I love it so much), nothing like that. If you want newer higher-tech carbines and rifles, you're going to have to go the semi-automatic route. There is no legal way, at all, to own a modern one in this country.
you see, what im doing here is forcing the anti gun people to say what they actually mean: they want a blanket gun ban. banning any sort of rifle, semi auto or otherise, makes zero sense when you consider that its the least conspicuous guns of all (handguns) that are the real killers.
what they want is a blanket gun ban, and that is an argument that falls flat on its own.
*Nods and pulls on his beard understandingly.* ---
Ever since the day you left, my fate's been set unknown... How many years to walk this path alone? [...] So why'd you close your eyes... why can't I shut mine?