for those of you who don't know the march for our lives is a protest for gun right or something to stop school shootings.
Am I understanding this to mean you didn't know what the protest was about?
Don't get me wrong here, I support right to assemble and protest, but the idea of people joining protests without even knowing what they're protesting worries me.
I don't get the assault rifle ban thing.
If people can only get semi-auto anyway, wouldn't it make more sense to ban the smaller guns that are easier to sneak into places?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the intention, idk.
Yes, smaller guns are easier to conceal, and this is why the vast majority of gun crime is committed with handguns
I don't get the assault rifle ban thing.
If people can only get semi-auto anyway,
Because people don't understand what semi auto means and the difference between it and full auto, and hearing the term "assault weapon/assault rifle" scares them.
I've read proposed assault weapons ban bills and they're total nonsense. The legal definition of assault weapon is defined by the presence of cosmetic features like pistol grips, forward grips, and barrel shrouds.
The last in that list is completely baffling to me, because the bill defines a barrel shroud as "a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel of a firearm so that the shroud protects the user of the firearm from heat generated by the barrel"
And that's illegal because.... not wanting to burn your hand makes you a terrorist....??????
The bill also completely bans, by name, the AR-15, but exempts from ban, the Mini 14, even though the two rifles are functionality identical (both semi auto, both shoot the same cartridge, both accept the same capacity magazines, etc). It's just silly to me