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that mayor is an idiot, that is exactly what the founders had in mindAllowing an escalating small arms race in America has deadly implications:
Local police say the numbers of murders committed with assault weapons has been steadily rising since the ban expired on Sept. 13, 2004. Now that they're more readily available, assault rifles have become more common, Miami Police Chief John Timoney said.
''It's become fashionable if you will,'' he said. ``It's the weapon of choice.''
In the city of Miami, 20 percent of murders this year were committed with assault weapons, up from 4 percent in 2004.
The Mayor of Miami-Dade shares the sentiments of Miami Chief Timoney:
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez, a former police officer and police director, can't hide his anger when he talks about the assault weapons his officers are facing.
''While I feel very strongly about the Second Amendment, I don't think that our founding fathers had AK-47s in mind,'' he said. `
`There's absolutely no reason I can see having these weapons out on the street.''
Gun Guys » In Miami, Assault Weapons are Killing Residents at a Record Rate
it was to protect against an overbearing government
The "founding fathers" also owned slaves.
If you're going to play that game, Hitler and Stalin took away citizens' guns. How does it feel to be in that company?