It is all about the amount of fear something generates relative to its actual threat. 250,000 deaths due to things like medical mistakes per annum, 64,000 deaths per annum due to overdoses and it hardly makes the news. If the threat is not statistically significant compared to other threats, then it is by definition, irrational...but I will not try to convince some silly woman standing on a chair because a mouse ran past her. 32,999 killed in auto accidents each year...2,000 of which are children. Ban cars and driving? As for it (AR-15) being used in almost "all" the mass shootings that is just anti-gun bullshit: [cga.ct.gov]

@dahermit More than half of all mass shooters had high capacity magazines, assault weapons or both, according to Mother Jones. I'm not anti-gun, just weapons designed and built to kill or maim as many people as possible as fast as possible.
I'm not going to argue with you, a federal appeals court ruled assault weapons are not protected by the 2nd amendment.

@dahermit Assault weapons are not protected by the 2nd amendment which means they can be banned. The federal appeals court upheld Maryland's ban on 45 types of military style weapons. I intend to see as much of the rest of the country follow suit.

@MikeFlora Yawwwn...once again, the federal appeals court is not the Supreme Court, which has the final say. And, Yawwwn....the original posting was not about the Constitutionality of certain semi-automatic weapons.