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The testimony on a new "Assault Weapon" ban in congress has pulled the curtain back even more than when Beto shouted he wants to ban all AR-15s....you know, the most popular rifle in the country with over 18 million of them in private hands...
That insanity continued.......
Total number of people killed by all rifle types in 2018?
297
Killed by knives..... 1,515.
Cars..... over 38,000
The House Judiciary Committee's Assault Weapons Ban Fallout
It is one thing for Democrats such as Beto O'Rourke and Rep. Eric Swalwell (R-CA) to call for confiscating AR-15s and civilian versions of AK-47s. But in the committee hearing this past Wednesday, the loudest applause came when Democratic witnesses called for bans on all or at least the vast majority of guns.
"I believe that any weapon that can be used to hunt individuals should be banned," announced Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall M. Brackney in the hearing. Brackney and other witnesses showed just how far the Democratic Party has gone on gun control in only a few years.
Brackney was given a chance by Congressman Greg Steube (R-FL) to correct the record if she might have misspoken, but she only doubled down. Steube pointed out that any firearm could be used to hunt people down, and Brackney responded by repeating the point. She only clarified that police and the military would still be able to have guns.
Ten years ago, if a Democrat witness had suggested banning all guns, one can only imagine that Democratic congressmen would be desperate to disassociate themselves from those comments. But not now. Not one, single Democrat expressed any disapproval.
Kristen Rand of the Violence Policy Center claimed that detachable magazines are the "most important and deadly feature" of assault weapons. But a ban on detachable magazines would result in the ban of virtually all semi-automatic guns, the most commonly-owned type of firearm in the United States.
Again, none of the Democratic politicians raised any word of caution.
Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) claimed: "Assault weapons have become the favorite of many mass shooters." But only 13 percentof all mass public shootings since 1998 involved just a rifle. Fifty-six percent involved only a handgun. Eighty-three percent involved either just a handgun or a handgun plus some other type of firearm.
That insanity continued.......
Total number of people killed by all rifle types in 2018?
297
Killed by knives..... 1,515.
Cars..... over 38,000
The House Judiciary Committee's Assault Weapons Ban Fallout
It is one thing for Democrats such as Beto O'Rourke and Rep. Eric Swalwell (R-CA) to call for confiscating AR-15s and civilian versions of AK-47s. But in the committee hearing this past Wednesday, the loudest applause came when Democratic witnesses called for bans on all or at least the vast majority of guns.
"I believe that any weapon that can be used to hunt individuals should be banned," announced Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall M. Brackney in the hearing. Brackney and other witnesses showed just how far the Democratic Party has gone on gun control in only a few years.
Brackney was given a chance by Congressman Greg Steube (R-FL) to correct the record if she might have misspoken, but she only doubled down. Steube pointed out that any firearm could be used to hunt people down, and Brackney responded by repeating the point. She only clarified that police and the military would still be able to have guns.
Ten years ago, if a Democrat witness had suggested banning all guns, one can only imagine that Democratic congressmen would be desperate to disassociate themselves from those comments. But not now. Not one, single Democrat expressed any disapproval.
Kristen Rand of the Violence Policy Center claimed that detachable magazines are the "most important and deadly feature" of assault weapons. But a ban on detachable magazines would result in the ban of virtually all semi-automatic guns, the most commonly-owned type of firearm in the United States.
Again, none of the Democratic politicians raised any word of caution.
Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) claimed: "Assault weapons have become the favorite of many mass shooters." But only 13 percentof all mass public shootings since 1998 involved just a rifle. Fifty-six percent involved only a handgun. Eighty-three percent involved either just a handgun or a handgun plus some other type of firearm.
