mass murder weopons should be banned by statute

Dairygirl, Throughout your whole argument you fail to see one thing: Guns don't kill people; the people behind the guns kill people. You say that AK47's are a "mass murder weapon", but why are they more so then any othwer weapon? Simply because they are able to fire faster? I don't think this is a logical argument. In the virginia tech shooting 32 people were killed, and many more wounded. Did the shooter use an AK47? No, he used hand guns. Handguns, or any other weapon for that matter can potentially do just as much if not more damage then an AK47 can. Anyone can conceal a handgun, bring it into any random store and start gunning people down. The same cannot be said of an AK47, simply because it is larger in size and cannot be concealed. As long as the person behind the handgun is a good shot, he could carry two of them and have twenty people dead without reloading. I don't know about you, but I have never gone to an arms dealer and had a gun jump off the shelf and start shooting at me. You cannot logically say that guns kill people, therefore, because the gun is not the one shooting. One gun will not kill you and deader (if you will) then the next. It is the malicious intension of the person behind the gun that kills. There are always the people in the world that are messed up enough to murder another person, and there is no way to stop this. If you take AK47'a away, they will use hand guns. If you take handguns away, they will use long-range rifles. You cannot win, then, unless you remove the right to bear arms completely. This, however, would mean the complete removal of one of our rights as American citizens. Why the should it stop there? Why should it stop at the removal of the right to bear arms? Why should they not remove the right to religious freedom? Or the right of free speach? You see, one cannot take away the right to bear arms, because it would lead to more than just the right to bear arms, but the removal of just AK47's and the like would not help our cause at all. Actually, instead of making AK47's illegal, quite the opposite might have a more powerful affect. If everyone was encouraged to carry a weapon like an AK47 around, then shootings like what took place in Virginia tech would dramaticly decrease I think. Most people in the world are not so messed up as to kiil other people, so why would those who are that messed up start shooting madly into a goup of people when most of the people will start shooting back with the same weapon? They generally woud not, unless they are suicidal. It is these suicidal shootings that you cannot prevent then. You can reduce them having people who are that depressed get medical/mental help, but you cannot eliminate them entirely. However, those people that are so depressed as to commit a murder suicide generally do not use "mass murder weapons". Generally tey use weapons that can be concealed until the intended time of use; namely handguns. You say that these mass murder weapons make mass shootings easier, but once again, you are wrong. Yes, they can shoot faster, but that does not really mean anything. After 9/11 security in places like airports increased dramatically, and it would be impossible to get any gun passed their security, let alone a weapon as big as an AK47. The murders committed in places like airports decreased, then, with the increase of security. Where do the murderers go then? To places like Virginia Tech. What weapons do they use? Weapons that they can conceal. Your whole argument is based on the fact that AK47's can kill more people, but I have proved that false. They can shoot more people at once, and therefore kill more people on the battlefield, but not in the case of a murder. Thanks for the debate topic! Renzzy