They are making manufactures filthy rich, but they are literally tearing our country apart. We have hit a probability point where we have so many assault rifles in circulation that we can all but guarantee that they will be regularly and consistently abused and misused. I hesitate to even use that phrase, though, because the ugly truth is that Johnson, Long, Mateen, and dozens of others who used assault rifles in mass shootings actually used them for their original purpose — as violently fast, efficient killing machines.