Assault Weapon Ban

I know this is a few weeks old, but Black America Today had a very interesting article posted concerning the recent lifting of the assault weapon ban: Assault Weapons Ban Expires Today. According to the author, Roland S. Martin, having the ban in place was a means for “keep[ing] our streets from being damaged by savages who are more intent on using the guns for human prey”. A lot of opponents to the ban claimed that it violates the second amendment (the right to bear arms). However, I don’t believe the original founders of the constitution were intending for this to include mass killing weapons such as assault weapons. Assault weapons are designed for only one purpose: the killing of a large number of people with one pull of the trigger.