Nov

7

Why?

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I posed the question on social networks asking why people felt the need to own AK-47s or AR-15s. Many people state the reason for owning them as “protection”, and many people are running out to buy more guns now that Obama has been elected president.

Being from Connecticut I’ve never been around gun enthusiasts, my mom hates guns and my dad doesn’t have an opinion, but having moved south to Oklahoma for college I was thrown into the middle of a gun-loving society. The number one ad I heard on the radio in the run up to the election was a gun store having a sale to “defend your second amendment rights”. I don’t have an issue with people owning handguns or rifles, but I still can’t get my mind around the reasoning for owning semi-automatics.

I don’t know anyone who hunts with these kind of guns, and as far as protecting your family its overkill and seems to be more of a hazard than anything. Don’t these things go through walls and bones and anything else in there way? Weren’t they meant for the battle field? Do we really neeed these things floating around the country?

Call me a weird Northener but I just don’t see the need for them, and hope the Obama administration will work to restrict access to them, even bringing back the ban that was passed during the Clinton adminstration.

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