Here is the gun used to murder children in our schools. Did the founding fathers envision this?

[Major Nikon]

85. I choose my words carefully

I suspected that since you are obviously a professor you would have noticed, but apparently not. I never claimed a "semi auto/detachable magazine fed rifle" was less suitable for hunting. I said it was not necessary. So please next time please pay better attention to what I actually said rather than what you think I said, or what you wish I had said, or what you can better build your strawman, because if you don't I'm simply going to point out your obvious error and reduce your exercise to one of futility that's a waste of your time typing it and my time reading it.

The availability of military surplus weapons today was not the case in 1994, and whether they are more or less available today is irrelevant because those are the style of weapons proliferating today, thanks to gun nuts who want to dress up in plus size camo and live out their pseudo military fantasies. So I just don't see the point in pretending these types of weapons are really about anything that's remotely related to hunting or anything else that doesn't involve the most efficient way to kill other human beings. It's about a civilian weapons race where pretty much everyone loses other than the NRA and gun manufacturers.

If anything does happen this time around, the reason it will be a "helluva fight" is because the US is filled to the brim with dipshit gun nuts that are too daft to realize the US is the only country in the G8 (besides Russia) with virtually no gun control and a gun homicide rate that rivals and surpasses many 3rd world countries and who want to pretend those things aren't related. Instead they want to make silly arguments about irrelevant facts and claim the reason gun control doesn't work is because of stupid politicians. The actual reason is stupid people. Not sayin' you, of course, but just sayin'.