Tell me what you hunt with your modern sporting rifle? That is in fact the civillian version of the M-16. And what was the M-16 designed to do ...oh yes kill people.  The only thing I have seen AR-15 used to "hunt" is eradicating invasive species (hogs, coyotes and the like) oh yeah and people. You say a single man is to blame...okay take away the gun he used and how many people could he have killed? Seems as though the gun may have helped quite a bit...Omar Mateen running up and yelling BANG! probably wouldn't have killed too many of the club goers.  It had little or nothing to do with religion...many a person has pledged allegiance to the American flag their whole lives, prior to killing innocent people and we don't talk about how they are radical Christian American terrorists now do we? I'm sorry but maintaining the status quo is not working. If you think it is, the dead bodies of (innocent people, school children, toddlers accidentally shooting other toddlers) says otherwise.