# Why Should Guns Be Legal?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 7, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-guns-be-legal/798154 "2017-10-07T00:21:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-guns-be-legal/798154/146 "2017-10-09T18:53:37Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> OK, let us say you have two semi auto rifles, both in the same caliber. Same magazine.
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> One has a nice walnut stock.
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> The other a black plastic stock, in a military style. It even has a bayonet lug.  
> .

I’m pro gun but for me, when I hold an AR-15 or other similar weapon I do get a kind of macho, Rambo like high. Very different when compared to holding a traditional deer rifle.

Same as when I’m holding a 30-30 lever action Henry or Winchester. I feel like I am John Wayne.

Or when I have I held a black powder old cap and ball replica or flintlock replica I can imagine myself standing shoulder to shoulder firing a volley.

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