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One can defend themselves and their family with something less than a high capacity/high fire rate rifle.
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Perhaps, but needs and circumstances differ. I'm not going to support a massive, expensive, and fruitless ban based on your presumptions.
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The utility of the rifle is an offensive weapon to kill people
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There are two responses to that. The first is this: yes. Yes, it certainly is. That's what makes it an effective defensive tool.
The second is that it has other utilities. Dealing with packs of coyotes or wild hogs doesn't work out too well with a bolt-action rifle, conditions for which a high-capacity semiautomatic smallbore works fairly well.