Gun Control & RKBA

How do we realistically keep it from happening.

That some people want to just make them all illegal, confiscate them all and melt them all down is understandable, God knows I'd feel that way if my kid or lover had been shot by one of those loonies.... but not only impracticable but even overtly stating that as the goal would doom any and all Democratic party power for a generation or more.

I can understand both people who are horrified and disgusted by the very existence of guns and people who love them and think they are intrinsically fun, works of art, vital to individual safety and an explicit constitutional right to possess and bear.

I used to live in San Francisco I was born there, I understand how someone who lives there, or in NY can consider someone wanting a semi automatic high powered rifle as fucking insane. I had a moron neighbor across the street who kept threatening to shoot his girlfriend with a 30-06 ( a rifle quite capable of penetrating several walls after going through a person, great for deer or Nazis at 200 yards, not the optimum choice for use in a city neighborhood).

I'm only saying that the discussion should be not about "assault weapons" but about what the controllers are worried about and what many citizens own and use, and use the correct description. Arguing about features like picitinney rails ( the cool modular attachments for everything from lights to bayonets to grenade launchers), or pistol grips is stupid; what actually concerns the restrictionists is the capacity for firing a lot of bullets, with great accuracy, in a short amount of time.

The fact that an AR-15 type rifle is light weight, ergonomic, customizable and uses ammunition that weighs much less than what a GI of WW2 carried per bullet does not matter, I think, if what the bad guy is doing involves carrying the rifle from a parking lot into a night club or building. All that stuff would matter greatly if you were carrying it 20 miles a day every day, but a few hundred feet- grandpa's M1 hits way harder for weighting a bit more and not being totally customizable, and it's 100 year old technology.