Re:United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year...
by baroffoos on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:05AM
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Rifles have none of the legitimate uses that gun advocates go on about so its a low reward but 0 loss situation to ban them.
Unless someone is proposing you need to defend your house against a zombie invasion.
Re:United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year...
by mlyle on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:13AM
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? The majority of hunting is performed with rifles, though shotguns and pistols do have roles. This includes semi-automatic rifles.
A big fraction of serious marksmanship is done with rifles, including multiple formats that depend upon semi-automatic rifles.
There are many collectors of curios & relics of military and sporting history, which are overwhelmingly rifles.
My brother kills trapped raccoons on his property with a rifle instead of drowning them because he feels it is more humane.
There's a ton of legitimate sporting use, some defense use, and they are used much, much less in crime than handguns.
People focus on rifles, which are responsible for relatively few deaths, because banning handguns is wildly unpopular. (Heck Kamala Harris owns a handgun.)