Powerful Weapons in the Hands of Trigger Happy Fanatics

THERE IS, AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, a powerful automatic weapon called something like a "Bushmaster223", or something like that. It seems to be rather popular, particularly among mass murderers. Its been the weapon of choice on several occasions, most notably, perhaps, when Adam Lanza killed twenty six people in a school with a bushmaster, then killed himself with a pocket pistol. On his radio talk show, Geraldo Rivera issued a challenge, for anyone to call in to his show and explain a practical use, any use, for this weapon. Evidently there are many bushmaster owners around the country, and Geraldo, quite reasonably, wanted to hear reasons why people own them. The closest anyone came was when one fairly literate sounding good ole soughern boy called in to say that he used one to hunt hogs. Now, that might be the best possible use for an automatic weapon. The United States is currently being overrun with the wild hog population, and its a very serious problem, in terms of damage to property. We need to thin this animal out considerably, by whatever means. In a perfect world hunters would take to the fields and forests with single shot rifles, kill the hogs, and feed the poor, but, this emergency really calls for a bushmaster. Good enough. But everybody else who called Geraldo tried to give a speech about the sanctity of the second amendment, as if this argument were good enough to answer a simple question about particular uses for a particular weapon. Second amendment fanatics never have been known for their ability to argue for gun ownership on practical grounds, so, they tend to stay in the realm of ideals. Ideally, the founders intended no second amendment restrictions, let us say for the sake of argument. But what about practical uses for a bushmaster 223? Other than killing hogs, maybe killing pythons in Florida. But that's about it. Certainly not good enough reasons for a powerful weapon to be in the hands of trigger happy second amendment fanatics.