assumptions
GWC,
"Obviously, you have never experienced an engagement with an enemy force."
Perhaps you and Pineedles shouldn't make assumptions.
I served with the First Infantry Division in Viet Nam in '68 and '69. I was a machine gunner on an armored personel carrier, complete with a C.I.B. and a Purple Heart.
That was then, this is now. Machine guns served the common good in war time, but what good do they serve in the hands of children now? Machine guns are designed to kill people. Do we put them in the hands of children and adults so that someday they, too, can kill people?
Legitimate hunting is one thing, but I don't understand the need for people to own assault rifles, machine guns, etc. To each his or her own, right, but I still say machine guns in the hands of civilians in peace time is unnecessary.
Maybe I've just had enough of all that. War is not the answer. We can do better.
Peter
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