At some point when I am feeling particularly bored and controversial, I should write that article on how the modal American lunatic's media-induced fascination with the AR-15 has saved a lot of lives by keeping would-be mass murderers away from better, more-suited-for-the-purpose guns.
@cerebrate it is the image, it has become an icon to something like the Colt Single Action Army or Winchester 1873 used to be. It symbolizes something... quite what I don't know, an America that I struggle to comprehend I guess.
