05-25-2017, 11:38 PM
(05-25-2017, 09:17 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I specifically addressed this point in a past thread. To briefly summarize, automatic weapons serve one real purpose, to suppress. You can't really make a legitimate self defense argument for a weapon designed only to suppress. Yes, I realize there are 2A proponents who disagree with me on this. Surprise, we aren't a homogeneous monolith.
Sorry to make you recover the same ground, but I missed it.
In your standard Infantry platoon, the automatic weapons are the most casualty producing weapons organic to the Infantry platoon. Yes, they suppress better than the semiautomatic rifles, but they also kill better as well. In the defense, automatic weapons like the M240B cover the front of an entire squad and form the FPL (final protective line). To say they are "designed only to suppress" is simply wrong.
I don't know what a 2A proponent is and I didn't suggest you were a homogeneous monolith.
