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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Next Day Error" data-source="post: 5484458" data-attributes="member: 97871">Cars and airplanes provide an obvious and widespread social utility. “Assault rifles” (the legal classification under federal law), for example, provide no such widespread social utility and are arguably not worth their societal drawbacks.For example, we understand and accept as a society that more cars and airplane travel will result in measurably more child deaths but taken as a whole are worth the trade off. Firearms scattered far and wide across the country with flimsy oversight that result in measurably more child deaths are simply not worth those extra deaths. It’s a cold calculation and a discussion that’s long overdue in our so-called civil life.</blockquote>