Those shitheads are advocating taking away the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms for all Americans including the hundred million law abiding gun owners in the US.
No, they're not. Banning assault weapons is not taking away your right to keep and bear arms. The NRA is trying to scare the shit out of you, and you're letting them!
What WILL stop the illegal gun crime in big cities is for the people of those neighborhoods to stand up and make it stop. They are the only ones who can, and it is a sensible thing to add to their agenda. The outcry against gun deaths is AS important as any policy that is discussed. The issue has been ignored and swept under the rug for far too long.
But no one wants to gut the 2nd. They want guns that were developed for military use out of the hands of civilians. No one needs a weapon designed solely to kill as many people as quickly and efficiently as possible. Think about it.
I’ve asked you before, what is an assault weapon? A knife is an assault weapon!
The AR-15 is directly modeled on the military M-16. Fact. The only difference was the full auto feature used on the military models.
The M-16 and hence the AR-15 were developed to be lightweight, easy to operate and to speed the bullets through the barrel causing maximum damage, as well as firing bullets as fast as possible. They accept large capacity magazines so you can shoot lots of people in between changing magazines.
There may be lots of weapons like that. If so, they should all be banned.
Getting into an argument over "What Is An Assault Weapon" is a tired tactic.
miketx: When the "assault weapons" ban was lifted, in the following decade mass shootings and the number of people killed in them TRIPLED. That is why I believe it would help to ban them again.