Good job going down the semantic highway. 

"Any weapon is an assault weapon" great, powerful logic. Except some weapons are DESIGNED TO ASSAULT PERSONNEL. Some countries on this planet do not have gun violence like we do. Some countries do not have people who vehemently glorify weapons with a dangerous zeal that allows us as a society to time and again turn our cheeks to the pain gun violence causes. 

Some people are so desperate to be right that they will smirk and chuckle to themselves about a hair-splitting distinction regarding the phrase "assault rifle" when the fact of the matter is its design comes from war, and we could do well as a society to not pump the mechanisms of war into our society under the misguided rallying cry that they are just normal weapons and it's my perception that is wrong.