Rural gun ownership.

[DrewFlorida]

107. Assault weapons have become the weapon of choice for terrorists, mass murderers,

and many others in crime. It is now common for the average police officer to find himself out gunned by criminals. The proliferation of assault weapons goes far beyond innocent people in rural areas using them for self defense or hunting. The problems associated with assault weapons is not limited to high capacity magazines. It is also a problem of the ease with which people can aquire them at gun shows without background checks due to the personal weapon sale loophole, and the ammunition available for them such as high velocity rounds, hollow points and soft points etc etc. And as we have seen a number of times in recent years people with a history of violence and mental instability have no trouble getting their hands on assault weapons. The idea that the retard who killed 26 people in Newtown was allowed to even use a gun for target shooting is outrageous, people with those histories should not be allowed in the same house as a gun let alone be allowed to use one.

The issue is not with recreational use, or legitimate self defense, or hunting, all of those things are legitimate reason to own a gun and those liberties should not be stopped.