I hunt with my M1A. Stick a 5-round magazine in (maximum allowed for hunting in most places) and go shoot it like any other gun. Just because I have the option of rapid fire doesn't mean I unload all the rounds every time. Semi-auto is nice to have when hunting pigs too.
As for no need to defend yourself...I don't know what to say to that type of ignorance. There are no homicides where you live? No crime?
"It's better to have a gun and not need it, than to need it and not have it."
Ok, I understand the hunting part. Not that I hunt, but whatever.
I don't know any person who own a gun. It's a lot of differences between Usa and Sweden. I live in a suburb, 20 away form Stockholm (by bus). Crimes? Not much. A year ago two men tried to rob a jewelry store at the mall. Some guy in the mall got pissed and jumped one of them, haha. Both got caught.
Homicides? No, haha. I know that there was a body dumped at the pizza place a few years ago (MC gang's head quarter). Other then that, you hear about maybe one homicide a month, when it comes to the whole country. And then it get's pretty big in the press, usually.
So I don't think I need protection haha.