Gun Control & RKBA

icon: One of the problems with near-Trumpian levels of self regard, James.....occurs when a speakers' ego becomes so massive that they believe their every utterance is axiomatic. They become entirely incapable of understanding that no, their listeners will not automatically accept their words as one with those handed down from Mount Sinai graven upon tablets of stone.

Gasp. Icon. You throwing beevul under the bus?

I wrote: AR15's are not in common use, despite their pseudo 'popularity'
Icon replied: Prove it. No one here gets to have their claims accepted automatically.

Only ~5% of gun owners own one (if that due multiple ownership), only about 1% of americans own one. You call that 'popular'? popular amongst far rightwing gun owners. 4 million ar15s out of 300 million guns in America.
What are they 'commonly' used for? target shooting seems to be the common theme, surely infrequently by a tiny portion of gun owners; you rarely hear of them being used for righteous purpose or dgu, moreso for mass shootings or prancing around town exercising the open carry rkba. They are not in common use, they are upper class white man's toys & status symbols.

icon: The mere word of the Stuart heir will not suffice as evidence, not when numerous writers and sources have nearly unanimously proclaimed the very opposite to be true.

Numerous writers and sources have NEARLY unanimously proclaimed the very opposite to be true? you cite some obscure segment of writers by using 'numerous' and you concede that not all of them even believe in your premise. Sentence structure needs work. 'numerous writers .... nearly unanimously'. Ha.
Practice what you preach icon, PROVE IT, that ar15s are in common use. For what?

PS: I'm not a pretender to the throne.