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You're missing my point.

No I'm not. Your point is that somehow taking threads off
a gun or changing the stock, is going to prevent the next guy
intent of committing mass murder.

I'm looking at what happens (or doesn't happen) at the point-of-sale.

Are there people that are buying "assault" or "military" rifles for the
look, the thrill factor, and if you impose a ban on the sale /
manufacture of those rifles then those people will just walk away from
the gun store AND NOT instead buy some other ordinary, "plain-looking"
(but legal) rifle?

It's just that your *point* makes no sense.

I'm asking a question that nobody seems to want to answer.

The question raises the point about why some people might want to buy
certain types of rifles.

There are tens of millions of those weapons out there.

What is being discussed currently would pertain to new purchases, to
what would be available commercially in the future.

If you look at the mass-murder events that happened over the past dozen
years - how many involve recently-purchased weapons? Weapons that were
purchased a few days, a week or a month before the event?

You'd have to be totally nuts to think that changing a
cosmetic feature on guns is going to do anything to
dissuade criminals.

There's a difference between a criminal and a murderer.

All it's going to do is **** off the 99.99% of legal gun owners.

So called legal or "law abiding" gun owners are going to have to realize
that society is reaching the point where they will not tolerate the
abuse, murder, injury and death being performed upon them by guns so
that others can "enjoy" the right to possess these same guns.

The constitution, above all else, enshrines democracy. Democracy is the
rule of the majority. If the majority feel that some, many, most or all
personal firearms are more of a liability to society than a benefit,
then there will be change.

Gun advocates need to start paying attention to the problem and need to
come up with a solution to keeping guns out of the hands of crazy,
insane, angry, autistic or suicidal people. ESPECIALLY people young
people.

If the irresponsible people can't be stopped from getting their hands on
guns, and if gun activists, enthusiasts and hobbiests don't want to play
a constructive role, then *everybody* pays a price.

When children can't play nice with the toys they have, responsible
parents step in and take the toys away.

Guns are nothing more than toys for big boys.