If people took their driving skills/habits and washing their hands as seriously as gun control, perhaps we wouldn't have so many traffic deaths and flu/viral fatalities...both of which I'd bet kill more people than guns.

You bet wisely. Cars are dangerous weapons any jackass barely old enough to shave can misuse and kill people with, but nobody seems to take it into consideration.

Uzis were not designed for the civilian market and are very rarely a practical choice when buying a gun. I don't like the idea of full-autos on the open market because I can't imagine any situation in which any law-abiding citizen would ever need one. Any decent (legal) semi-auto shotgun can, when used properly, dispense an unbelievable tonnage of whoopass. If you ever need anything better than that you shouldn't have pissed off every mafia within 1000 miles in the first place.

What I don't understand is the rationale behind selling automatic weapons in the open market.

Look up the second ammendment of the Bill of Rights. It's the principle of the issue that many people care about, not the practicality.


Edit: One thing some of you might be interested in for home defense is loading a shotty with two types of ammo. The first shot should be light birdshot to prevent accidental and unnecessary deaths and everything after that should be your usual stuff.