opinion post

I have pondered over the way people react when they see firearms such as Ar-15’s but these weapons are not like you see on TV while watching your nightly shows like Hawaii Five-0 , or Criminal minds. The Ar-15 is no different than the ordinary Hunting rifle that most young hunters start with for a first gun and many grown men still use today such as the .223. The only difference is not the ammunition, or the damage that can be done with it but the appearance of the two rifles is different.  The .223 hunting rifle normally comes with a wood, synthetic, or fiberglass one-piece stock. Whereas the Ar-15 sporting rifle allows you to customize it, by this I mean changing the furniture like stocks, forward grips, sights, flashlights, and uppers and lowers that allow to change the caliber of the riffle to fire different ammunition but mind you still the same as other hunting rifles.

Some people believe just the high capacity magazines need to be banned. Based on the journal “Why Ban “Assault Weapons”?”  Written by James B. Jacobs. It was discussing if assault weapons should be banned. Alex Seitz- Wald states “ But the Assault Weapon Ban is and always has been a bit of a red herring, so people concerned about gun violence shouldn’t be to sad to see it go. Of all the policy proposals to prevent gun violence, it’s probably the least important and the most controversial, making it the ideal sacrificial sacred cow to appease gun rights advocates and to help secure passage of more effective strategies to curbing gun deaths, like ban large capacity ammunition magazines. “ (681). Banning large capacity magazines serves no purpose many of use us these magazines for target sporting events, hunting and especially in areas that have been over taken by wild boars.

I’ve yet to understand the whole ban assault weapons. Based on “The Encyclopedia Of Crime and Punishment” Written by Emily A. Luc and Wesley G. Jennings. They stated that “Assault is the intentional act of causing bodily harm, threatening bodily harm, or provoking unwanted physical contact.” (Luc and Jennings).  If this is so and they really want to ban “assault weapons” then they should want to ban every weapon anyone has ever been injured by or used against someone in a harmful way for example a baseball bat. People have been beaten with them but we are not banning them or calling them “assault bats” they are still looked at as objects for a sport, so why are we trying to do it to the Ar-15 that is just another firearm with the option of a high capacity mag used for sporting events also.