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[Shamash]

12. Can someone explain something to me?

Preferably in a straightforward fashion. Since rifles are the least likely type of firearm to be used in a murder (FBI Uniform Crime Report), "assault rifles" are a small minority of the rifles owned (Slate.com), and incidents where 10 or more shots are fired are the least likely type (Journal of Injury Prevention), my question is this:

"If you wanted to spend all your political capital to ban a class of gun and a feature of a gun statistically guaranteed to save the smallest number of lives, which class of gun and which feature would you choose?"

Because it seems to me that "assault rifles" and "high-capacity magazines" is the answer that fits. Now, you may not like this answer, but if someone can provide a reasonable explanation of how it is wrong, you would go a long way towards strengthening support for the pro-ban position. Otherwise it is like crusading on banning Lamborghinis and Dom Perignon as an effective means of curbing the problem of drunk drivers.