Actually, it's less than 5%. Using the FBI statistics for 2006-2010, only in one of those years did the number of homicides with rifles exceed 3% -- and that was just barely. But it's possible we're using different sets of reported numbers. However, you're right on point. We want to ban a sub-set of a class of firearms used in less than 5% of all murders based entirely upon their appearance.

Really? There are no lead toys or tainted meat being sold?

You just find somebody who will say what you want them to say and then you don't have to lie. Just find an expert willing to lie (like former Ambassador Joe Wilson) and keep playing it over and over again.

Why do we need that instead of the background checks we do now?

I believe it was the shotgun that was left in the car.

Rifles of all kinds are used in less than 3% of all murders. Surely it must be about banning guns, than trying to solve a real problem.

Claiming that not raising the debt ceiling will cause a default or our debt is like telling MasterCard you won't pay your bill if they don't raise you're credit limit. Debt has already been incurred. Not getting more debt doesn't affect our current debt.

Let's force Congress to pass an actual budget -- not a continuing resolution -- before tackling the debt ceiling.

Sorry, that's not the definition of Natural Born American citizen, except to you.

So how did they steal the money from everybody else? Didn't they earn it? Didn't they pay taxes along the way?

Or things could go another way -- America is in permanent decline, the American ideal is over, the American experiment is over. The statists and Marxist won and they're not letting go of power.