Why Americans like rapid firing rifles so much? Because of personal defense or fear of tyranny?

I'm not talking about the little guns that you can hide in the glove box but those big ones that you have to hold with both hands. Why do you need them?

If its for personal defense, you're an idiot and if your entire defense strategy depends on having a big gun that can shoot lots if bullets quickly, you are missing chromosomes and are not responsible enough to have such a weapon.

If its because you're scared of tyranny, if I was some kind of dictator, I'd want you to have lots of guns simply because I could then send in my army with helicopters and long range weaponry.

When the constitution was written, guns were primitive compared to today. You couldn't go into a class room and kill 30 children in less than a minute with one. Also, the English were a problem back then but these days the English don't want to be in charge of USA. Seriously, if you offered us your country, we wouldn't want it.

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Northwest · M

The year is 2018, not 1818.

There are those who own a weapon, and that would be a single weapon, typically a hand gun. They don't brag about it, they don't take out on date nights, and they don't masturbate with its image in mind. This group is not typically made up of fanatics, and while their fears are somewhat unrealistic, they are understandable.

There's another group of Americans, who fantasize about guns, collect them, caress them, polish them, and join the NRA, to make sure their fantasies are not interrupted.

I'm sure there are a few people who fill the gap in between these two groups.

Bottom line, is that there's no way to rationalize this, especially given our polarized state of affairs.