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

Tom1000 Wrote: Dec 30, 2012 10:55 AM
The assault weapons ban isn't designed to prevent murders. It's designed to disarm law-abiding citizens of their right of self-defense and a deterrent to tyranny. That, and to fall in line with our more "sophisticated" social-democratic European betters. The anti-gun crowd is mortified at being labeled a "cowboy" or "hick" . . .
John in OK Wrote: Dec 30, 2012 11:00 AM
Not to mention the ownership of a firearm is a serious responsibility. The Left abhors the very idea of personal responsibility. We must not be allowed to accept the idea of being responsible for ourselves; that's what government is for!

If people were responsible for themselves and their own defense, there would be no need for liberals or their ever-growing government.

Such a society CANNOT be allowed to exist!! /sarc off

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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