Setting aside that guns are fun. They are weapons made to kill. These are objects that enable to use of violence at range and increase to strength of the user in the same way a hammer can be used to break or make something.
They also become an extension of the user's body to the point where the user cannot tell them apart from themselves during the time they are using them.
This means that in a society that does not see guns as extraordinary, they become no more than the pointing of a finger and shouting a threat. As such, the threat of violence becomes real because of the power of the weapon, and semi-automatic rifles increase the destructive potential massively.

I am a member of both Alliance and CSGV and get the governers report. All this has been rightly touted. Lets hope there's money to hire a lot more customs agents.

Let's hope this the beginning of a groundswell of sanity in this country!

Steps in the right direction and a big blow to gun happy repubs.

Finally some progress. Meanwhile in upstate NY, a girl was killed while turning around in a driveway.