play-doh manly play time Do you make fun of people who use vim or whatever too? A tool is a tool is a tool. Classy argument, though! A lot of the reason we ha

play-doh manly play time Do you make fun of people who use vim or whatever too? A tool is a tool is a tool. Classy argument, though! A lot of the reason we have this problem is folks like you and legislators not really articulating the difference between, say, assault rifles (which you put in quotes here for some reason which is not obvious) and "assault weapons" (quoted properly, as seen in reporting). An assault rifle fires an intermediate rifle round, has a detachable external magazine, and select fire. If a rifle doesn't have those three things, it isn't an assault rifle. Since very few rifles available in the US have select fire (unless you've purchased one with tax stamp or whatever), this means that politicians and lobbyists have fallen back on the "assault weapon" definition, which is really just anything that looks scary and vaguely military. Handguns are only usable for killing human beings--that is absolutely true. They are preferable to long arms (rifles, shotguns, etc.) in self-defense situations inside, say, a house. They are somewhat countered by knives up close--hence, police 15-foot rules. The problem people have when banning or regulating handguns is that, unlike with the evil puppy-killing assault weapons, every handgun that isn't a flintlock basically looks and works the same. So, they haven't been able to slowly whittle off types of munitions as has been tried with rifles.