Passing assault weapons bill is a matter of life and death (barf alert)

Chicago S-T ^ | 16 dec 2022 | Arne Duncan

[rellimpank]

I don’t ever want to hear another politician offer “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting. I don’t ever again want to look into the eyes of parents of dead first- and second graders, as I did in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. I don’t ever want to attend another funeral for a slain student, which I did all too frequently as CEO of CPS.

Illinois has a chance to join seven other states and Washington, D.C., in banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that are the weapon of choice for mass shooters like the one who killed seven people and wounded 48 others in Highland Park on July 4.

The Highland Park victims are among more than 3,200 Americans killed in over 600 mass shootings so far this year. Illinois communities have not been spared in recent years, with mass shootings taking place in cities that include Aurora, DeKalb, Zion, East St. Louis, Yorkville, Waukegan, Decatur, Wheeling, Rockford, Crest Hill, North Chicago, Romeoville, Elgin, Joliet and Peoria

[rellimpank]

---the usual rot from the S-T--

[Howie66]

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

End of discussion.

[ought-six]

Arne Duncan is a rabid leftist. He is BFF with Barack Obama.

[boomop1]

Who’s death, legal owners of semi automatics these people need to visit South Side Chicago, it will not pass. Besides how are they going to categorize these weapons, I know, any thing with a mag.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

No.

[Campion]

Fact: Fists and feet are used as murder weapons in the US about as often as rifles of all types, including so-called "assault weapons," every year.

Fact: "Blunt objects" are used as murder weapons just about as often as fists and feet, or rifles of all types, in the US on an annual basis.

Fact: Edged weapons -- knives, stilettos, swords and the like -- are used as murder weapons far more often than any of the above categories.

Fact: Handguns are far and away the most popular murder weapon.

So why the obsession with "assault rifles"?

[NorthMountain]

Chicongo has exceeded 700 homicides again this year; the author seems unaware that the terminally corrupt urban black culture has more to do with than the availability of particular types of weapons.

[NorthMountain]

So why the obsession with "assault rifles"?

More efficient for killing tyrants, than pistols, knives, clubs, or bare hands.

[Campion]

No more calls, please — we have a winner!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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98% OF MASS-SHOOTINGS OCCUR IN GUN-FREE ZONES

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REPEAL JOE BIDEN'S GUN-FREE SCHOOL ZONE ACT OF 1990

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FACT: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. 98+% of the time the gun is not fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.

SOURCE: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, pages 21, 83.

FACT: 98% of mass-shootings occur in gun-free zones

SOURCE: https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-percentage-mass-shootings-happen-gun-free-amanda-prestigiacomo

[ALPAPilot]

This should be the common response:

https://www.americanexperiment.org/gun-crime-offenders-and-our-court-systems-anemic-response/

[ConservativeInPA]

You miserable bastard. So you were the CEO of CPS. You failed and you lost all credibility. You are nothing more than a political hack that’s incapable of success. You’re an eff’n loser. Why should anyone listen to your leftist drivel? You should be rotting in prison for facilitating the murders of innocent citizens. Your policies had consequences and you don’t feel any of them. You’re nothing more than a steaming piece of excrement and you should be flushed from public life.

[fretzer]

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

[bk1000]

“I don’t ever want to hear another politician offer “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting.”

I don’t ever want to hear any liberal moan about gun control after trading a Russian arms dealer for a bull dyke basketball player. I don’t want to hear anything about an “assault weapons ban” after they leave $85B in weaponry in the desert for the Taliban, or send $billions in weapons to Ukraine. Just STFU.

[Bonemaker]

“REPEAL JOE BIDEN’S GUN-FREE SCHOOL ZONE ACT OF 1990”

Bush The First signed the bloody thing. He has been “repealed”.

[bert]

No, the article is true.

If the people don’t have weapons, they can’t kill the progressive tyrants. The lives of the non progressives are at stake

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***So why the obsession with “assault rifles”? ***

Because they are an easy target to go for.

Back in 1962-1968 it was “Saturday Night Specials” and 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles.

Then from 1968 -1984 it was “Only” handguns.

Then came the fear mongering of “Cop Killer Bullets!”

Now it is rifles, something the anti-gun radicals and politicians said they would NEVER try to ban—till they saw a chance to make a grab for them.

[Honest Nigerian]

Arne Duncan?
Is this the $@&?#% from 0bambi Department of Edumacation?
Probably, since that AD was connected to ChitCaca.

[Boomer]

Yeah; our lives. We need them to protect ourselves from the foreign invaders and the US government that is hostile to freedom and the US Constitution.

[MileHi]

Then came the fear mongering of “Cop Killer Bullets!”

I forgot about “Cop Killer Bullets”. Than was when they pretended to be concerned about the police.