Originally Posted by Robbie

And I find it weird that small handguns are no longer the "target" (pun intended) of anti-gun folks.

Hell, when I was a teenager "Saturday Night Special" (an anti-gun song by Lynyrd Skynyrd about .38 "special" handguns) was a big song on the radio.

For decades it was all about banning handguns. As the song says: "Handguns were made for killing, ain't no good for nothing else".
Now, it's suddenly about so-called "assault rifles".

My feeling is that true criminals never use "assault rifles". You can't exactly sneak around with one very well.
No, they use easily concealed handguns.

Now a crazy person going on some insane killing spree? They will find a way to kill as many people as humanly possible. And they don't give a fuck about the "law".

Anyway, it just seems that all this talk of assault rifles and "gun control" is definitely aimed (pun intended) at the wrong weapons.

Big shootings are big stories on the news for ratings. But they are statistically very rare.
Handguns killing people? That is by far the vast majority of homicide by gun. It's not even close when you compare it with any other type of gun.

People seemed to know that in the 1970's and 1980's.
These days, the media decides what you people believe at any given moment.
Even though you have google at your fingertips to find the truth of the matter.

EDIT: For the record, I own ONE gun. A shotgun. I use birdshot shells. If anyone ever breaks in my house and I shoot them with it...they will wish they were dead because they will be filled with hundreds of tiny bb's.