Jason Alexander long twit on Assault Weapons

[AtheistCrusader]

180. This is full of the most ignorant shit ever.

"I'm hoping that right after they hit send, they take a deep breath and realize that those arguments are completely specious. I believe tomatoes and cars have purposes other than killing. What purpose does an AR-15 serve to a sportsman that a more standard hunting rifle does not serve? Let's see - does it fire more rounds without reload? Yes. Does it fire farther and more accurately? Yes. Does it accommodate a more lethal payload? Yes. So basically, the purpose of an assault style weapon is to kill more stuff, more fully, faster and from further away. To achieve maximum lethality. Hardly the primary purpose of tomatoes and sports cars."

Groan. The AR-15 fires .223. It is not MORE lethal than the rifles it replaced. It replace, in common use, weapons that fire .308. They sacrificed killing power for accuracy, and weight. The ammo weighs less, so a soldier can carry it further. It is also very accurate, because it fires at a much higher velocity than the .30 caliber soviet weapons it was designed to counter.

As for lethality, holy shit are you ignorant. It isn't even legal for use to hunt deer (you know, animals that weigh between 200-300lbs, about as much as an adult human) because it cannot reliably and humanely kill a deer? The DC Sniper shot a 10 year old in the chest with it. If he'd been using the ACTUALLY more lethal predecessor to the AR-15, or MORE LETHAL successor to the M1, the AR-10, which also fires .308, that kid would have been dead right there. Forget the hospital. Dead.


Why is it so impossible for you to do any research before making up all this bullshit?