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Topic: The Facts About Assault Weapons and Crime |
The Facts About Assault Weapons and Crime
Wall Street Journal, by John R. Lott Jr.
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 1/17/2013 8:10:48 PM
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| Warning about "weapons designed for the theater of war," President Obama on Wednesday called for immediate action on a new Federal Assault Weapons Ban. He said that "more of our fellow Americans might still be alive" if the original assault weapons ban, passed in 1994, had not expired in 2004. Last month, in the wake of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) promised to introduce an updated version of the ban. She too warned of the threat posed by "military weapons." After the nightmare of Newtown, their concern is understandable.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1, 1/17/2013 8:14:08 PM (No. 9123129)
They way they´re still pushing this you´d almost think the rumors of O´tard arranging to sell off US resources to the Chinese in exchange for our debt were true - said rumor indicating the Chinese (and the O´tards) wouldn´t like the armed response citizens would make when they found out what had been done.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sunsong, 1/17/2013 8:43:12 PM (No. 9123186)
Good article!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/17/2013 8:51:41 PM (No. 9123208)
Unfortunately for the liberal Democrat gun control activists the 2nd Amendment does not indicate that they have any right to tell the people that they can no longer own and possess semi-automatic firearms that are in common use, or how many rounds they should have in a deer rifle.
The people of the USA have had the right to keep and bear arms long before the USA was even formed back in 1776, and that right should not be taken away because a few crazy people commit insanely criminal acts. The government should be looking at affective ways to keep guns out of the hands of the criminally insane and not law abiding citizens.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
trapper, 1/17/2013 8:54:11 PM (No. 9123213)
Great article, but a question:
FTA: " Last month, in the wake of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., ..."
And: "The killer in Newtown used a Bushmaster .223."
There is TV video footage, up all over the internet, of the police finding and removing the Bushmaster from the trunk of Lanza´s car. It´s easy to find on Youtube. Since Lanza killed himself inside the school, he couldn´t have used the rifle found in his trunk. So why does everyone keep repeating that he used the Bushmaster AR-15? What´s up with that?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
saguni, 1/17/2013 9:09:12 PM (No. 9123244)
Warning about "weapons designed for the theater of war," President Obama on Wednesday called for immediate action blah blah blah
When the Revolutionary War began, the typical "hunting rifle" of the colonial farmers was a better performing weapon than the one issued to the soldiers of the British Army.
That is the G-d given right that the Second Amendment protects...as good or better that the army of tyranny.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
skywarrior, 1/17/2013 9:40:33 PM (No. 9123291)
:...he couldn´t have used the rifle found in his trunk".
Never waste a good crisis #4. The left has been salivating over the chance to ban "assault weapons" for years. Newtown gave them their excuse (crisis).
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LittleRedHen1, 1/17/2013 9:45:07 PM (No. 9123303)
Read Federalist #46 off of a link on today´s American Thinker. Infantry weapons are what the Founding Fathers had in mind, with a mobilized militia (local ad-hoc organizations, run by the local government)fielding an army 10 to 20 times larger than the standing army as an insurance policy against tyranny.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
smcchk, 1/17/2013 10:06:09 PM (No. 9123332)
i want to know why it took police 20 minutes to respond to the Newton school shooting? 20 minutes? Where is the outrage about that?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
coldoc, 1/17/2013 10:41:47 PM (No. 9123383)
I refuse to be held responsible for a broken system that allows lunatics to range free and obtain and use firearms and denys our children protection. Sheriff dupnik, are you there?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley, 1/17/2013 11:09:28 PM (No. 9123423)
To maybe answer #8: In my county we have two deputies on every shift. Assuming none are in court or otherwise not there. If they handle a call on the far side of the county (where most of the trouble is), it could easily take 20 minutes to get to our side, even with lights and siren and burning rubber. Its just a fact of life out here. That´s why we arm ourselves. My gun is never more than a few seconds away. Same with the neighbors. It works pretty well for us.
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