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CMV: Bans on semi automatic rifles will do absolutely nothing to stop gun deaths except make the people more vulnerable.

(US) There were about 24k dead from gun violence last year, which was a highest total for decades out of a country with 330 million people (the United States). Yes certain people of power use that number and say “we need to regulate semi auto rifles like the AR-15 and the AK” the fact if the matter is this is just not true. A big portion of those deaths were suicides, not murders with weapons, let’s go further, by far all the “Mass shootings” which are all 95% gang/ drug related shoot outs where both parties are armed with ILLEGAL handguns with minimal injuries and casualties, not disgruntled people walking into a store and shooting random people. Yeah handguns that are illegally obtained and that probably have been in roasting since the 90s, early 2000s, there is no feasible conceivable way to control that type of organized selling of firearms. Under 1 percent of shootings are committed with rifles. To compare that let’s put out a number of 38k car deaths in 2020 almost twice as much as guns, you don’t see anyone attempting to restrict them or up the age limit. 

Sure you might say the worst shootings were mostly done with rifles, which is mostly correct, however they are outliers that don’t reflect the majority of gun owners. 21 million AR-15s in the US, all mass shootings committed with those rifles don’t even add up to 0.01 of the rifle use in this country, I think it’s disingenuous to blame “assault weapons”. You could bring up the Australia argument but they didn’t have even 1/10 of the firearms of the United States today. With 330 million known guns, (probably hundred million more illegal ones it makes no sense logic wise)


Let’s not forget what the purpose of the civilians having weapons is to defend against a tyrannical government.
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>Let’s not forget what the purpose of the civilians having weapons is to defend against a tyrannical government

There is one big problem with this argument. What is tyranny? Just look through the events of last year. You had a large group of people believing that lockdowns and mask mandates were tyranny, while the same group had no problem with the surveillance of the government. Half the country believed that the elections could have been rigged. Frankly, it is impossible for people to agree upon something. 

Even today, you have groups that reject the federal government. If they began to go around killing federal workers, would they be the good guys or the bady guys ? 

The biggest threat to freedom does not come from an external power or the military, it comes from either party. How many ardent supporters of each party would you expect to turn against their own party? Your guns will not be used against a tyrannical government, it will be used against your fellow citizens who oppose your view. Tyranny is in the eye of the beholder. The presence of guns just enables people with oppressive ideas to implement them by force.