Andrea Junker 
I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.
LevkaWhat's an "assault weapon"? Not a rhetorical question.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesIn the parlance of the gun debate
and bear in mind that includes people who are gun experts as well as not, an "assault rifle" is one which allows the user to fire multiple shots at multiple targets before targets have time to react.
Otherwise, you get into inane arguments about magazine capacity, range, reload mechanism, demons in the end of the barrel...that kind of inane gaslighting.
Words have meanings.
An assault rifle , by definition, has a selector switch that can select for full automatic. If a weapon cannot fire full automatic it is not an assault rifle. It's something else.
I have a 12 Gauge pump action shotgun which allows the user to fire multiple shots at multiple targets before targets have time to react. It's not an assault rifle. It's a much different device.
I've never shot anyone with it. I never needed to. I popped a trunk lid once and asked if they *wanted* trouble. That was enough. They didn't.
I didn't even have to brandish it. They didn't know what was in there. Just the possibility was sufficient. That's the power of firearms.
Cat West@LevZadov @n_dimension @Strandjunker So, you were only pretending to be incredibly stupid so you could split hairs on definitions of weapons of war in the hands of civilians!