[thastings]

The only difference between an "assault weapon" and a hunting rifle is that the hunting rifle is better built, more powerful and more accurate then the assault rifle. An AK-47 max range is 300 meters. The .308 is still holding a 6" group at a 1000 meters.

The fastest firing pistol is STILL a revolver. Watch a fast draw contest and half the time you never see the man draw, fire and holster the revolver. It takes a slow motion camera to see it.

So, what you are really afraid of is some "bad boy" on the street with a bad looking gun, that has to fire 15 rounds in order to hit something from 5' away. Of course, thats when you hope a trained civilian armed with an 7 rd Colt .45, who only needs 1 rd at 15 meters it hit his target, walks by. Thats what carry permits do. The bad guy never has to worry about the person he is robbing because he already has the drop on him. Its that armed, law abiding citizen, that sees him robbing you, that he has to worry about.

So, stop trying to use the Constitution to solve the crime problem and start supporting longer cell time for the criminals. I've never heard of a bad guy robbing a civilan, while he was in jail.

Terry