Everyone knows that the best home protection is 2 dogs that are territorial and won't eat the steak a stranger gives them until the intruder has left the premises, or died from his injuries!
2nd best is a Mossburg riot shotgun because you just have to aim it in the general direction of the intruder and fire it whilst screaming and running for cover and you will still most likely hit the SOB.
I have a assault rifle, won it in a card game 13 yrs ago, and although I don't even know what all the letters and numbers are in it's name, I know it has a scope that supposedly cost $12,000, and I know I have never for even a second thought about shooting all my neighbors, well in all honesty I did think about shooting 1 of them for just a second but not with the assault rifle!
I for the life of me, can't figure out why anyone needs these things, or even needs an extended clip for a pistol, or a 15 round clip for that matter, but I could name 50 people we know who own them and have never shot anyone....BUT, ban them and all you do is create a black market for them, we have laws in every state against selling or possessing drugs, that ain't working out so good either and if you could eliminate them, you would eliminate the majority of crimes as well....
As for the shootings in Orlando, I blame the new political correctness attitude in this country not the guns, why is this guys "Dad" still living in this country, not the shooter, his "Dad"!
The shooter was just a f'n nutcase who tried to make his hate crime look like a terrorist act, better press I guess, but he would have been gone if his Dad was given the boot long ago!
Sad sad state this world is in today!