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Here’s where most reasonable people start w/ #guns: they’re only as deadly as the person who holds them. Millions use guns for hunting or target practice safely every day. Yet we cannot escape the fact that their sole design is to cause harm. This makes them worthy of scrutiny.
There are degrees of harm any #gun can cause. Hunting rifles (7mm, .300) are deadly but their scale of death is limited as compared to semi/automatic rifles. Pistols fall somewhere in the middle. So let’s give semi/auto rifles particular scrutiny.
Semi/automatic (S/A) rifles have no practical utility beyond maximizing death. They may be used for hunting but not by reasonable hunters who want meat. S/A guns are either weapons of war or used for thrill. The question: should we find other thrills given use in civilian deaths?
