I'm convinced the town I work in is full of crazy people.

[Taem]

And I'm equally surprised I find myself agreeing with DeeBye on this issue. It's like saying a drug is a drug, so all drugs should be legal. I've been around enough drug abusers in my life to say in all honestly that a few types of super addictive drugs (i.e. crystal meth, heroine) should not be legal under any circumstances no matter what and so long as it's all drugs or none, despite my stance to legalize drugs, I'd still vote against them being legal if it meant these super addictive drugs would become legal. I'm aware that an addictive personality is an addictive personality period, and that someone predisposed to become an alcoholic is just as likely to pick up the crack pipe and never put it down, but I still think there is something to be said for these two drugs (and possibly nicotine). As far as drugs are concerned, I feel the same... who the hell needs AK47's or Uzi's to defend themselves or for hunting? These weapons are for murdering only, not hunting, not self defense. In this day and age, the reality is we can never enter another civil war of the type we did when the constitution was written - it just can't happen like that! Brain too tired to think up logical argument here, but I leave you with this analogy: Avatar natives vs. military might. Natives lost (well they should have anyway, but had a "mystical power" helping them), so what are a few rebellious American's with AK's going to do against a superpower with spy technology, assuming our leadership became compromised by rich politicians and we wanted to retake the country? We'd be on death row in days. The truth is, our modern age superpowers are too big to fail... think on that. They really are - even Russia collapsed but everything remained the same. Those in power will stay in power even under regime change because they're the ones with all the money! So even if you somehow "win" your war, you've already lost. There is noway to change anything without doing away with the current system, so based on this logic there is no reason to own assault rifles because... it won't make a damn bit of difference in the end anyhow!