Why do folks want/need at AK47 assault rifle?

Please, I am not looking for the right to bear arms argument, but what is this weapons draw?

Its simple. They want it. Why does anyone want a motorcycle? They do. I bought another this afternoon. That makes 3. I don't need any of them, but I want them. Whose job is it and why to tell someone  no, you can't have what you want.

Sometimes society can. You can't have your own nuclear bomb. But guns are very specifically mentioned early on in our constitution. That's significant.

 For fun.

 I have both weapon types, ammo drums, two full-auto capable and a stamp to carry a suppressor.  I got a suppressor on three weapons just to reduce the noise because I hate how my ears sweat under the headphones, and inserts make them itch.  Drums reduce the time I take reloading, however I hate filling them.  Also its fun.

 I agree with the post relating motorcycles to it.  People ask me all the time why I even buy them when they are used a year or two at most.  For fun.

 As for the 2nd Amendment I don't believe that if they had semi-auto weapons being used to kill children in schoolhouses that they would have worded it the same way.

 I watched a movie the other day for fun.  I may not have been justified in that as it was self-serving.  I did not do it to further expand the economy surrounding its production and release.

 Can you more clearly define the term "justification" in context to recreational or self-serving action?

 Yes their fun can encroach on yours.  I could think of 10, and with a day I could come up with hundreds of possible scenarios where alcohol or drug related activities could encroach on the community around them.  Give me a month and I could probably get you well over a thousand.

 If I drink and drive it is dangerous to many, or if consume excess OTC's for fun I could end up face down on a street corner.

 Its legal to mow my lawn, yard work is fun for me but it can encroach on my neighbors if I do it at 2am as the mower is loud as hell.

 Is fun a justification for me to mow my lawn?  (I'm not required to by law or covenant where I live)

 Your question is really broad when you ask if fun is a justification for anything we do.  Like my friend watching her kids use watercolors - is that justified?  Are you going that broad with the question?

"Should we take safeguards to make sure folks are not using the booze in a manner that might lead to possible consequences that cease being fun?"

 Yeah.  This is already done, are you asking if there should be more?   

 We could stop the public consumption of liquor and require it be done only on private property with supervision by assigned and certified persons.  Or only allow the production and imports of 3.2 beer - no hard alcohol or wines etc.

 For firearms there are safeguards, and people are pushing for more.  I'm pretty sure nobody wants to remove current safeguards and start leaving loaded firearms laying around.


 How would we use the term "justification" and apply it to "fun" or at least "self serving fun" in a way that I concise enough to implement even more safeguards into law?

 

No JOG2, Americans do not have the right to own whatever they want.
Every society reviews those items available at any time, and makes a judgment whether it seems beneficial to allow ownership..be it atom bombs, guns, anacondas, second wives, slaves or Japanese beetles.  And as time moves on, some things that were once restricted become legal and available, and some things that were legal become illegal.  

Yes, laws should change as society deems it’s need, or value....
Isn’t that the true freedom of democracy instead of hanging rigid to the past, like needing a gun to eat, etc?

With the idea of restricting fun so it doesn’t become a liability, like at a bar, the tender can shut you off, if he deems you have become a problem with consumption.
How about having these assault rifles use, and possession, maintained by the range owners, where you can still enjoy the fun of the sport, but the weapon can not leave the premises, strictly pay to play....
Tell me, why that couldn’t work?