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I don't believe the Bushmaster .223 has a bayonet lug, but if it did, it wasn't essential to the function of the weapon as a semi-automatic rifle in .223 caliber.

So you could have an exception for one personal defense gun.

Yes, I did not think of this negative aspect...However, an individual could remove a handgun at night to ensure the it is more accessible in case of break-in, locking it back up when there is not a risk to members of the family in the household...

The registration is the first and biggest hurdle.

Anyway, carry on with this dispassionate discussion about various weaponry in a thread begun in reaction to a mass murder. Lookin' good!

Sorry I came across as being a jerk, but you seem to be missing the irony. You were asked why you don't have full-auto, and you didn't respond with comments about the serious responsibility involved but that you can't afford it and you'd "prolly be in my house and wouldn't want to wreck the place." You followed that with, "Unlike firearms, destructive devices are just too dangerous," and your blas attitude combined with the thought of a device that could wreck your house while not being destructive was just too ironic to pass by without comment.

...you've forgotten that you're talking about extremely dangerous weapons designed specifically to kill a many people quickly.

You're left arguing trivia and can't see how utterly crazy it all is.

And what would have happened if the assailant had not had a gun available in the first place?

But let's test the prediction. In nations where guns are less available, does the number of bomb-based attacks increase after firearms legislation is passed?

You've speculated, but the real world already has examples. What do those examples show us?

It’s a Fact
Here’s why:63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census).90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.
(Source: Center for Disease Control).80% of rapist motivated by displaced anger come from fatherless homes. (Source:
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, pp. 403-26).71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. (Source: National Principals Assoc. Report on the State of High Schools).85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home. (Source: Fulton County Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. Of Corrections, 1992).These statistics translate to mean that children from fatherless homes are:5 times more likely to commit suicide
32 times more likely to run away
20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
14 times more likely to commit rape
9 times more likely to drop out of high school
20 times more likely to end up in prisonChildren from fatherless homes are*:Children from "fatherless families of single mother" homes are*: 15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
4.6 times more likely to commit suicide
6.6 times more likely to become teenaged mothers
24.3 times more likely to run away
15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
6.3 times more likely to be in a state-operated institutions
10.8 times more likely to commit rape
6.6 times more likely to drop out of school
15.3 times more likely to end up in prison while a teenage
73% of adolescent murderers come from mother only homes
6.3 times more likely to be in state operated institutionsDaughters who live in mother only homes are 92% more likely to divorce.

And I was just saying that these facts and Stats dont need a rreference unless someone questions their validity.

I'll need some time to look at that article, but from just the snippet you posted, I'd argue that gun control is not intended to reduce suicide or criminal violence, but is intended to reduce deaths due to gunfire, or most broadly, to reduce the murder rate.