Retailers start to pull some rifles from shelves

The question at hand is "How efficient of a killing device are we comfortable allowing anyone with a credit card to buy?". Today you are unable to walk into a Wal-Mart and buy a truck load of dynamite or C-4 explosives. Your are not allowed to buy enriched uranium nor possess an atomic bomb. I feel very confident in saying that if you were allowed to easily buy these items than the number of bombings in this country would go up substantially.

The people who choose to go on these killing sprees are going to use the most efficient tools they can get their hands on to carry out their crime. So, we as a society get to choose just how efficient we want to allow them to be. I am fully aware that they could choose to try and poison a group of people or run them over with a car, but they don't. They choose to obtain semi-automatic fire arms and large quantities of ammunition to commit their crimes.

I am a lifelong hunter and gun owner. I do not own a single semiautomatic weapon, nor one that holds more than 5 rounds of ammunition. At some point we have to say that a weapon is such an efficient killing machine that we do not want it to be sold legally.  For me that line is drawn at semi-automatics and weapons with large ammunition capacities.  I just don’t see a purpose for these other than the one we keep seeing on the news. 

And for all of you 2nd amendment lovers, I've got news for you. You can stockpile all of the assault weapons you can afford and you will still not be considered viable threat to the United States government. It is just not practical. The ironic thing is that most of you are the same people who get upset when anyone talks about shrinking our military. It is the expansion of our military over the last 30 years that has led to a state where the 2nd amendment is pointless. Your guns are not a threat to the government.

The problems not the guns,knives, baseball bats, box cutters, mental illness, TV, movies, music, bullies, whites, blacks,browns, etc. Its our moron parenting that doesn't believe in spending time, teaching commonsense, disiplining, or in general actually being a parent. Ban timeout, grounding, etc. and whip little Johnny/Susie's **** when they do wrong and teach them the value of property and life then just maybe some of this crap would stop.

Are we going to ban shotguns as well because a good 12 gauge with a heavy load in a confined space such as a movie theatre, classroom, McDonalds could cause a lot more damage than any semi auto rifle or pistol unless the gunmans actually taking the time to aim.