Definition of assault rifle
: any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed military rifles (such as the AK-47) that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire
also : a rifle that resembles a military assault rifle but is designed to allow only semiautomatic fire
An AR-15 is an assault rifle, even if you don't like it.
It's not an AK-47, but it does do the damage the Pediatric Surgeons describe.
Your insistence on fighting over the word is inane, under pedantic circumstances, but it is cruelly insensitive in these circumstances.
I don't fucking care what word is used to ban AR-15 type weapons and others that do the same thing.
I don't know why you do.
Why do you want people to have high capacity magazines that can shoot rounds so often and of such power that children are unrecognizable when they've been shot and seldom able to get to the hospital to have a chance of being saved?