Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
Before the King Soopers shooting, Boulder had an assault-weapons ban. It violated state law.
By Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press Nearly three years before a gunman walked into a crowded supermarket in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with an AR-15 style weapon and killed 10 people, the city of Boulder, Colorado, voted to ban assault weapons. Leaders had hoped to prevent the...
coloradosun.com
"Nearly three years before a gunman walked into a crowded supermarket in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with an AR-15 style weapon and killed 10 people, the city of Boulder, Colorado, voted to ban assault weapons. Whether the Boulder ordinance could have stopped the massacre isn't fully clear, and may never been known."
Yes, we do know...the answer is NO!!!! -- a fucking ordinance wouldn't have stopped this shooting. The guy used a pistol modified to fit an AR platform and the barrel was short enough to where it wouldn't have been outlawed by any weapons ban. The best thing to do is repeal all gun control laws; all of them.
We already have a law against murder; if someone wants to use their weapon to murder someone -- prosecute them for murder -- but this belief that we can stop mass shootings and other gun crimes by issuing a weapons ban is silly. If someone can afford it; they should be able to purchase any weapon they want and purchase as many as they want and it shouldn't be limited to just guns, it should be ANY WEAPON they can afford.