It's not the gun, it's not the gun, it's not the gun...... it's the person using the gun!
To be making the distinction between a Parker and an AR is something a California elected official would try to sell. A gun is made up of common components, a tube to direct something, some kind of force to get an object to move down that tube and some type of projectile to travel at high speed in a chosen direction. To try to make a distinction between a "zip gun" made from a pipe, nail and a shell or an antique double gun or a "black" AR is foolish; a gun is a gun and some people want to take them ALL away. Don't encourage them to take the other guys, because your's will be next.
Rather than trying to make the distinction between an AR and a Parker, we would be better served to try to educate the ill informed that all guns shoot deadly projectiles and its not the gun that needs to be addressed but the actions of those using them. Push for harsh actions on anyone using a gun illegally and stand up for anyone using them for valid personal protection, hunting and target shooting.
A nut job recently flew a commercial airliner into a mountain side but I didn't hear anyone blame the aircraft. More people are killed each year by medical errors than guns but we don't hear a call to eliminate doctors or hospitals. Thousands are killed on our highways because of distracted drivers using cell phones but nobody calls for the elimination of cell phones. Pass all the laws you want, none of these problems will be resolved as a result. Take away all guns and there will still be murders; think Cane and Able.
They don't want to take all our guns to protect us, they want them all to protect themselves from "we the people" who can keep them from going even more over the edge and stop them from abusing the powers we grant them.
By the way, the cell phone issue could be solved and I have written officials and corporations on how to solve the problem, but for obvious monetary reasons, nothing will be done. Solution..... Cell phones have GPS devices built into them, so imagine all phones disabling their keypads if the phone is moving in excess of 10 MPH (except for 911). Distracted drives eliminated and hands free enforced; no texting possible. In the few years after everyone upgrades, problem solved.
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