Some people will say, “But they were talking about muskets, not military style assault weapons”. However back then the musket was the cutting edge technology. Everyone used them, from the British redcoats to the farmer who shot deer and turkeys to feed his family with. Thirdly, guns are inanimate objects. A gun looking scary does not inherently make it dangerous. The SAFE act, a gun control law in New York State focuses mainly on ascetics and features(Yonkunas). A gun cannot pull its own trigger. It needs the input of a human being. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” (“Davis”). Also some uneducated people might say that AR-15 has the words assault rifle right in the name. This is not true the “AR” in AR-15 stands for Armalite, the company that originally designed the firearm
Some people will say, “But they were talking about muskets, not military style assault weapons”. However back then the musket was the cutting edge technology. Everyone used them, from the British redcoats to the farmer who shot deer and turkeys to feed his family with. Thirdly, guns are inanimate objects. A gun looking scary does not inherently make it dangerous. The SAFE act, a gun control law in New York State focuses mainly on ascetics and features(Yonkunas). A gun cannot pull its own trigger. It needs the input of a human being. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” (“Davis”). Also some uneducated people might say that AR-15 has the words assault rifle right in the name. This is not true the “AR” in AR-15 stands for Armalite, the company that originally designed the firearm