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To: rktman

The key parts of his incoherent article:

This includes improved, thorough background checks; detailed, regular mental health evaluations for gun owners and potential gun buyers and similar evaluations for family members who share residency; improved methods of documenting private gun transfers; and, perhaps the most controversial, restrictions on high-capacity ammunition magazines.

As I prepare to introduce a military-style assault weapons bill in the coming legislative session, I understand that these types of restrictions may not be popular among some gun owners.

But military-style weapons with high-capacity magazines give criminals and other irresponsible gun users the ability to maximize damage, which ultimately results in greater loss of life. Giving civilians access to military-style weaponry is nonsensical given the high propensity of mass murderers to use these weapons to carry out their massacres.

A sensible approach to gun laws dictates that firearms with reasonable recreational, self-defense and sporting uses be protected, but military-style guns are proven to be nothing more than killing machines in the hands of irresponsible civilians.


25 posted on 03/03/2014 7:26:59 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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To: Atlas Sneezed
Giving civilians access to military-style weaponry is nonsensical given the high propensity of mass murderers to use these weapons to carry out their massacres.

Is he talking about citizens of Mexico, Holder, and "Fast and Furious"?

39 posted on 03/03/2014 7:42:19 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Atlas Sneezed
"...but military-style guns are proven to be nothing more than killing machines in the hands of irresponsible civilians progressives.

There, fixed it :-)

44 posted on 03/03/2014 7:47:02 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Atlas Sneezed
military-style guns are proven to be nothing more than killing machines in the hands of irresponsible civilians

More people were killed with hammers in the US last year than with so-called "assault rifles". Many more with bare hands/fists. Commonsense hand registration is what we need, along with microstamped and serial numbered fists.

62 posted on 03/03/2014 9:04:00 AM PST by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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