Gun Control thread (merged many)

[August]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

i've found this to be untrue in too many circumstance, especially recently.

In my opinion, there is no reason to own a military-grade assault rifle (and that means a rifle firing rifle rounds with selective fire and high capacity magazines). I have yet to see a single completely logical argument that would justify owning an assault rifle. That being said, the assault rifle is already a helluva thing to own for most people, therefore most people do not own assault rifles, making it a non-issue. If any legislation should be passed, it should be higher licensing standards, especially mandatory psychiatric evaluation, but again its already extremely difficult to legally own an assault rifle, making banning it outright a poor way of doing things. This half-assed undereducated mess of a bill is not going to solve anything.

Psychiatric evaluation to exercise a constitutional right? Lovely.