SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by csThor

I have no problems with hunters owning weapons (not owning them would make that profession rather pointless, wouldn't it?) or people who like sportive shooting as a hobby. I do believe, however, that there is no need for anyone to own assault rifles, MGs or even more than one or two handguns.

A firearm to be assault rifle has to be select fire, (able to fire on full automatic) .
99% of what people call "assault rifles" are not assault rifles. Just semiautomatic rifles that are either based on some assault rifle design or in many cases just look like an assault rifle.
The thing is there are a lot of people that are active in anti firearms circles and even in governments, making laws, that know so little about the subject that use looks in making their decisions in what's dangerous and what's not.

You see some pearls coming from this people that you shake your head thinking, how come someone so ignorant about the subject is allowed to make laws about it.

Here are few examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospNRk2uM3U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...QqieimwLQ&NR=1

The problem is that, even if you take away the semiauto rifles, the anti gun machine will not stop there. They'll go for the hand guns , then shot guns, then bolt action guns and then the firearms of the police, so in the end only criminals have guns.
Some people think that just by removing guns, (from those not likely to shoot anyone), people would stop killing eachother. It's a utopia. We were slaughtering eachother for thousands of years without guns.