I may have the opportunity to interview senator Dick Durbin (D, Illinois) in the coming weeks. What questions or issues would you address with the senate's minority whip if you could?

Go ahead, define assault rifle. Then tell me how many specific guns that would ban. Assault weapon bans are a tiny fraction of actual weapons owned by the US population.

First you tell me to define 'assault rifle'. Then you talk about 'assault weapon', and then you suggest they're a "tiny fraction of actual weapons owned" with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Let's go google some random pictures of 'gun store'.

http://www.bullseyeindoorrange.com/images/shop_images/mini-30.jpg

http://latinonewstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/gun-store.jpg

http://www.jessesgunshop.com/images/expaug400001.gif?nxg_versionuid=published

http://www.geofffox.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/guns-on-the-wall-at-the-gun-store-las-vegas.jpg

http://www.gunrangemesquite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DSCF0228-664x264.jpg

Yes, 'assault weapons' are such a tiny percentage of owned guns that gun stores are devoting fully half their stock - or more - to the things. Because they sell so poorly!

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf

Democrats promised to ban 'assault weapons' after Newtown. December 2012 through March 2013 set new records for gun sales. It wouldn't make sense for people to panic-buy the guns that weren't going to be banned, so right there we have a suggestion that a significant minority of gun sales are directly attributable to so-called 'assault weapons'.

Go to your local gun range on a 'fact finding' mission and count how many AR15s you find. The ones near me literally every single person has a gun that would fit into the definition of an 'assault weapon'. Here's a picture I took some time ago: http://i.imgur.com/rVzzl0b.jpg?1. It's hard to see because of the divider screens and my shitty phone, but literally every person there has an AR15.

You have absolutely no merit to your claims that they aren't owned in significant quantities - and even if you did, who gives a shit? Gay people are only like 4% of the population, so who gives a fuck about gay rights, right?

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