I know we don't need automatic weapons, but the question may boil down to what is an automatic weapon.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.
If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns?
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Do we really need to arm our citizens with machine guns or semiautomatic weapons? And don't we need to make sure that people who do own guns are qualified to own them?
The people that are proposing banning assault weapons, well, first of all they're already banned. Assault weapon is a fully automatic, those are already banned.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.
Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.