But why someone will want a M4 Or a M16 in his house? defend his house from what? the Huns? Why would someone want to buy a Uzi? Its a good gun indeed, but for clearing bunkers, not for "defending your house". What would you do, spray the street to kill the 'invader'? Isnt a simple pistol is enough?
Nobody has ever bought an uzi, automatic or no, for defending their house. It is, quite simply, a "****s and giggles" weapon people buy (for extravagant amounts of money I might add) for fun. An M4 or M16? A legal, select fire weapon in either one of those categories can run someone upwards of $20,000, even more. A semi-automatic AR15 is already fairly expensive, with even base models costing upwards of $2,000, albeit that's for the good ones. No one, however, ever bought those for defending their home. They're good rifles, accurate and good for bringing people down. However, the much more important quality a rifle in that type possesses is a wonderful round for taking down gophers, a cheap round for shooting paper, and high magazine capacities. More importantly than all that? They're fun, plain and simple. I can shoot an AR15 or an AK47 or any other intermediate cartridge firearm all day, and I won't leave with a bruise like a .308 bolt action will do to me. They're great guns, and very few crimes are committed with them. 4% of murders are committed with rifles, including such weapons, and if every single one of that 4% was committed with an assault weapon, the enforcement of a ban would just cost insane amounts of money for an at most 4% decrease in crime.
In my opinion, a man will be able to buy a pistol and a small amount of ammo. That it. No one need massive amount of ammo is his garage for "defending his loved ones". A 9mm and 12 bullets its much more then enough.
12 rounds? Are you stupid? That's not even enough to fill a magazine, let alone keep someone qualified with the weapon. I can empty that much in less than five seconds, and then what do I do?
Ammo isn't worthwhile to restrict, plain and simple. Someone will get exactly the same effect with 10,000 rounds of 9mm as 17, because the magazine will only hold so much, and people aren't going to go and load up new magazines in the middle of a 30 second firefight.
Also, 9mm? Come on. .45 is better any day.
I love guns my self. I wish for an MP5 {dont ask me why MP5, I just felt in love with this gun}. But i know its not Logical to have one.
MP5s suck, just a heads up.
Also, if you have the money, why not buy one? Do you have plans to walk into a shopping mall and kill two or three people? Because let me tell you something, having a gun isn't going to make someone any more likely to commit murder. They don't turn people into monsters, and they sure as hell aren't going to turn people against every moral belief they possess because a gun is in their house.
that will spiral into more high profile shootings
How will arming normal people make them go kill other people? The safeguards that are already in place prevent the majority of crazy lunatics/terrorists from legally obtaining their weapons of choice.
I cannot think of a situation where you would need an AK 47
This is annoying. There is no need for a **** AK to begin with, but it's not a question of need. It's a question of want. Why SHOULDN'T I have an assault rifle if I have no plans to go and slaughter dozens of innocent people? Sure one lunatic every now and again will come along, buy a gun or steal it, and shoot a few people. However, these are not common occurrences, so why should millions of normal, happy people be punished because one person is a psychotic moron and wants to shoot the **** out of everything that moves and some things that don't?
Starting off, the prevention of illegally purchasing guns
So tell me, how does a law stop something when there is already a law that stops it? Laws don't mean something stops, it just means people go to jail if they break them. It's illegal to shoot school children, but that didn't stop the Connecticut school shooter, did it? It's illegal to have guns in a school, but what's that going to do? Make it easier to kill everyone, but more importantly, not a **** thing.
But not on the scale of what people purchase today (270 million on the last count)
If it cost five dollars to obtain and destroy every single one of those, we'd bankrupt the ATF. It's good that it doesn't cost five dollars though, isn't it? It costs a hell of a lot more, not to mention the potential loss of life by law enforcement shooting people who don't want to relinquish and getting shot at in return.
Stronger gun laws are definitely needed though, agreed.
Why? So I can't buy weapons that aren't going to hurt anyone that doesn't righteously deserve a lead salad? Crack down on psychopaths, make them illegal. Cracking down on the tools of their trade is just going to make them angrier, except now nobody even has the chance to stop them without going to prison on a 25 to life sentence.
All because they didn't want to get robbed.
Gun control is silly and pointless. Some gun laws cost enormous amounts of money to enforce for exactly zero gain, such as laws against .50 caliber rifles and automatic weapons. Any smart criminal is not going to use a weapon that weighs as much as his house or is empty in three seconds.
