I wish i had eye stalks.

It's called a carry handle not an optic handle, God would never create such an abomination checkmate theists.

Ain't none of them there wanna be 'high speed, low drag operators' would be caught dead with a carry handle on them cheap ARs. They want to festoon them with rails to mount all the bling they think they need. A carry handle would only get in the way.

They have taken what was meant to a lightweight 6 1/2lbs handy little carbine and turned it into a 10lbs+ monstrosity.

good for them. that's what you're actually supposed to do. that is, however, not the norm with conservative chuds. most will drop kilobuck or more money on an AR platform, and then shoot for shit with it because they don't have a good enough scope to utilize their high precision barrel.