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The Assault Weapons Ban Didn’t Work Then and It Won’t Work Now

serwin Wrote: Dec 30, 2012 10:36 AM

Of Course it worked. Within two years it lowered the already small percentage of murders from 3% to 1% and it did it by significantly increasing ownership of assault weapons. The FBI shows 323 murders with all types of rifles in 2011. They don't list assault weapons because it would be a much lower number. The new Feinstein bill is much worse than the old one.

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The Assault Weapons Ban Didn’t Work Then and It Won’t Work Now

Senator Dianne Feinstein is queuing up come January 2013 to retable—yet again—an Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) in order to “severely mitigate the possibilities of another Sandy Hook atrocity.” Great idea, Dianne, as the first AWB that Clinton signed into law worked wonders in schools from 1994-2004. It was awesome. It panned out wonderfully aside from the following:

November 7, 1994: Wickliffe, Ohio: (Wickliffe Middle School shooting) Keith Ledeger, 37, a former student at the school, shot and killed custodian Pete Christopher and wounded four other adults.
January 12, 1995: Seattle, Washington: A...

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