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Wrong Kind of Guns |
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Gregory Morris, 12/14/07 8:49:54 am |
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Wow. Here's an inciteful op-ed.
Weakened gun laws have allowed the wrong people to get the wrong kind of guns.
Answer me this: What is the "right kind of gun" to use in a mass shooting?
One thing that ticks me off more than any of these dozens of stupid, misinformed op-eds (the anti-rights lobby relies on this by the way): repeating the same old lies over and over again until people believe them. In the case of this article, it is the concept of the AWB actually doing anything. The Assault Weapons Ban only banned a handful of firearms by name from being manufactured. That wouldn't have changed any of the recent shootings, since the weapons were all still available, and even if they weren't, the shootings could have occurred just as easily with other types of weapons.
I have a big problem with laws like the AWB, aside from the fact that they are unconstitutional and have zero effect on crime: when you have something called an "assault weapons ban", people assume you have actually banned "assault weapons" (which is a made up term with no functional meaning anyway.) Then when the law fails to have an impact on crime, and legislators mercifully allow it to expire, people start screaming for the same thing all over again. Only next time, the law WILL be a lot more detrimental to our rights, while still failing to reduce crime.
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