The guns which our government is trying to ban are "needed" by anyone who lives in a neighborhood where people are likely to be attacked by gangs: drug gangs, car-jacking gangs, or just plain punk gangs.  How many of you out there have never encountered one of these, or never known anyone who has?  To drive off gang of maybe 20 punks requires a magazine larger than 10 shots, and a gun that can rapidly fire them.

--Leslie