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Malchira · 10-07-2002, 02:00 PM

I'm unfortunately not familiar with Canada's firearms laws. Though I consider Canada the 51st state, we apparently haven't switched them over to the new legal system yet.

There's no question that automatic weaponry was designed to increase lethality. These are weapons of war that we're referring to. However, that is not in any way normally the case with civilian-owned automatics. Last I checked, there have been very few incidents in which people have been murdered with fully-automatic weapons, or, for that matter, their semi-automatic counterparts (the guns called "assault weapons" by a media which doesn't care enough to know better). Statistically, the vast majority of criminals prefer pistols over rifles, due to their increased concealability, lower cost, and greater availability. Contrary to Hollywood's interpretation, your common armed criminal doesn't need, want, or use an assault weapon.

10-07-2002, 02:00 PM	#16
Malchira Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 19	I'm unfortunately not familiar with Canada's firearms laws. Though I consider Canada the 51st state, we apparently haven't switched them over to the new legal system yet. There's no question that automatic weaponry was designed to increase lethality. These are weapons of war that we're referring to. However, that is not in any way normally the case with civilian-owned automatics. Last I checked, there have been very few incidents in which people have been murdered with fully-automatic weapons, or, for that matter, their semi-automatic counterparts (the guns called "assault weapons" by a media which doesn't care enough to know better). Statistically, the vast majority of criminals prefer pistols over rifles, due to their increased concealability, lower cost, and greater availability. Contrary to Hollywood's interpretation, your common armed criminal doesn't need, want, or use an assault weapon.