.. Gunman opened fire on police with AK47 and was shot by police during a routine traffic stop

[marble falls]

31. I agree with you, Jack, even while i've 180'd about registering, making illegal certain amunition...

and accessories - large clips and silencers, national gun back ground checks and mental and past criminality with weapons would be denying factors.

For your critics. Guns by and large have not a thing to do with wars and the morality of them(to me the wars since I've been born have wrong and wastes), for the most part they are tools and used for recreational pursuits.

I have only been armed once in my life for self defense. It lasted three or four days until I could get my family moved out. My neighbor a drunk arrested many times for violence(including an assault on a female neighbor) started carrying a .357(legal in AZ) and menacing me.

I had a 12ga with goose shot at the door except when it was on the floor next to the bed at night.

Neither weapon was used in war, glorified or not, rightfully or not. There's all sorts of books and museums built to the glory of war - where their dunder at that?