While there was no shortage of mass murder by gunfire in 2011, the only one using an assault rifle that I can recall was the Norway shooting. As God awful as that was, that was Norway.
As terrible as the events in Connecticut were, this kind of thing represents only the tiniest fraction of the murders occurring in America. We're talking in the neighborhood of 0.2% to 0.5% of all murders. So why are we talking about banning assault rifles when it is clear that handguns are the real weapons of mass destruction?
These facts do not lie and based on these facts it is clear that banning assault weapons WILL NOT DO A DAMN THING TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF MURDER IN AMERICA. IT. WILL. DO. NOTHING.
So why are Democrats focused on assault rifles? Are they just completely clueless or do they, maybe, have an ulterior motive? I'd say a fair mix of both actually. Here's the sickest part though: by addressing the wrong issue, for whatever their reasons, they doom us all to a repeat lesson in evil 101.
Do you really think this will the last mass murder in America because the democrats passed a law that says assault rifles are banned? How could anyone be so naive? This is Barack Obama trying to look like he's doing something, like he has the power to stop evil. He isn't and he doesn't. This is political theater that will accomplish nothing. But at least Democrats will feel good and they won't have to talk about the economy for months.
I was listening to NPR on the drive home from work yesterday and they had some liberal college professor talking about gun control. This professor freely admitted that the previous Clinton-era AWB had no measurable impact on crime whatsoever but that we needed one anyways because assault weapons "scare our national psyche" and "we'd feel better" if they were banned.
At least he was honest.
Liberals will be calling for mandatory amputation now. After all, no one needs to work any more so why the hands and feet?
Drive-by shootings will stop. Overpopulation will soon disappear as people will be unable to put food in their mouth, tree huggers everywhere will be happy
To say handguns are the real weapons of mass destruction is outrageous. According to http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,152446,00.html 322,000 people per year are protected from great danger by a gun.
By contrast the medical profession kills about 750,000 people per year through negligence, prescription conflicts etc. Maybe we should outlaw allopathic doctors. They are the real weapon of mass destruction. See how stupid this becomes.
Hands and feet need to be band! With forced removal if need be! People don’t kill people! Hands and Feet kill people!
An assault rifle has a selector switch that allows either full or semi auto.