There is NO good reason for AK-47's to be "on the streets".
(Fully prepared to be flamed for this opinion)
Let's start by getting them out of the hands of bodyguards, cops, Federal agencies, and the military, then we'll discuss removing them from the hands of citizens...
Mike
That's probably why it's against the law to posses one without a federal permit. Too bad the existing gun laws aren't enforced. Maybe we wouldn't need any more. Even get rid of some that don't accomplish anything.
If you mean by this that this firearm should be "controlled" or illegal to possess, then you are indeed an idiot, and the very reason that Ak's are "on the street".
There is no rational thought in that statement.
Punish the criminal. Not the tools.
How about we ban cars that kill more people than legally purchased firearms every year?
If a human being is determined to kill children it is because that human being is evil and has made the decision to kill children..he or she will do this with whatever tool is available..
Mother's have drowned their children in the bathtub or driven their vehicles into lakes with their children in them or smothered their infants and abandoned them in dumpsters.
It's all horrible
The prevention for such horror is to hire teachers who are willing to be armed to protect their kids
Disarming honest protective capable good guys will never protect anyone except violent criminals and allow them to prey on families with even greater impunity.
It makes no more sense to disarm honest citizens then it does to disarm soldiers on the battlefield because other soldiers got killed by guerrillas using stolen weapons.
Criminals by definition do not respect law...and will violate laws to get the means to ply their violent trade or to satisfy their sick desires
We live in a society that imports criminals across unchecked borders and breeds others in broken homes and in socialist cess pools the moral vacuums haughtily referred to as public schools.
A gun..any gun is a tool an inanimate object without a deranged mind and an operator determined to do evil it cannot harm a soul..
If you want to stop violence any violence govt inspired or otherwise you must change human hearts
Communist Governments including the Chinese,Muslim Governments African governments routinely arrest torture and murder their own citizens in most brutal fashion..
Their citizens cannot resist them..
Disarming honest citizens because of a few violent criminals is not the answer to combating violent crime..
Authoritarian governments love violent criminals as they provoke some vocal members of society to demand the government disarm the good citizens the government fears most...honest citizens who will not tolerate their freedom being taken
The Nazis and the Soviets first use violent crime as their excuse for disarming their own people..and once disarmed the murders began that made rivers of blood flow through nations
While violent crime makes headlines and causes panic...the real crime will start after good people are disarmed not while they are armed.
imo