Do you also own a Ford and a Chevy?
Yeah, the debates on these issues are kind of stupid. Different machines, movies, etc. for different purposes. WRT the AK vs. AR debate, both do exactly what they were designed to do - and quite well.
The AK is designed to be an ultra-reliable rifle shooting a medium-sized .30 cal. rifle round. Accuracy was never deemed to be its strength, because the Soviets’ doctrine of the time was oriented toward massed fire by incredibly numerous troops. Its tanks and artillery of the time reflect the same doctrine.
The AR was, OTOH, designed to fire a heavy .22 cal. bullet (heavy for the time - obviously we now have 77 grain bullets vs. the original 55 grain FMJ) at a high velocity and accurately (for a regular issue combat rifle), so as to produce wounded enemy soldiers (wounded soldiers, so went the theory, need 4 people to haul them off and more to fix/heal them, while a dead soldier needs only 2, and only temporarily). The AR has improved steadily over time, whereas the AK is still the basic rifle that it was when designed.
Lots of people that I know have both, and either will send bad guys running the other way when you point it at them. If they don’t run away, either will kill them, or at least take a lot of the fight out of them.
P.S. Trek is better than Star Wars, and Chevy better than Ford. :>)
Sorry! I got a Tacoma. (inspired by the many governments, militia groups and US Special Forces that use the Tacoma/Hilux)
No, Star Wars is better. . . if for no other reason than this:
Maclean’s Magazine in 2005 investigated the fact that a surprising number of pedophiles arrested by the Toronto Police are Trekkies:
The first thing detectives from the Toronto
police sex crimes unit saw when they entered Roderick Cowan’s apartment was an autographed picture of William Shatner. Along with the photos on the computer of Scott Faichnie, also busted for possessing child porn,
they found a snapshot of the pediatric nurse and Boy Scout leader wearing a dress “Federation” uniform. Another suspect had a TV remote control shaped like a phaser. Yet another had a Star Trek credit card in his wallet. One was using “Picard” as his screen name. In the 3 1/2 years since police in Canada’s biggest city established a special unit to tackle child pornography, investigators have been
through so many dwellings packed with sci-fi books, DVDs, toys and collectibles like Klingon swords and sashes that it’s become a dark squadroom joke. “We always say there are two types of pedophiles: Star Trek and Star Wars,” says Det. Ian Lamond, the unit’s second-in-command. “But it’s mostly Star Trek.”