[Scorch]

Next time your friends start asking why anyone is allowed to own weapons, ask them why anyone should be allowed to own a car that can go faster than the maximum speed limit. Or why people are allowed to keep prescription pills at home. Or why people are allowed to own or possess ANYTHING that could be misused. It is about personal responsibility. Our founding fathers felt that people should be responsible for their actions. If those actions harm others or harm society, the person should be punished individually for their individual infractions of laws, not society collectively punished because of the illegal actions of a few using the object mentioned. Can you imagine what happens when you start restricting or criminalizing object just because someone misuses it? No cars, because people drive drunk and kill people. No computers, because people use them to steal from unsuspecting people. No baseballs, because people have been injured by them. No lighters because people have been burned. The list is endless. The argument often used is "but why semiautos?", and I reply "what's the difference". The largest mass murder in American history was committed using an airplane as a weapon. Instead of taking weapons away from people, why not take away the threats they are trying to defend themselves against?