5. Everyone knows Waxman is an idiot anyway.
4. Banning 50-caliber rifles will not keep them out of the hands of terrorists, it will only take them from law-abiding citizens. Terrorists will simply buy them from arms dealers overseas.
3. A 50-caliber rifle would only put a large dent in the limousines used by Bush, Cheyney, Ashcroft and other top US officials. Waxman's comments about attacking government limo's are highly deceptive.
2. His proposal blames inanimate tools of man for the criminal acts of men. By the same logic we would also ban knives, baseball bats, golf clubs, industrial explosives, cars, and trucks. (Just for the record, even with the WTC attack, far more people have been killed by drunk drivers in the last 20 years than by terrorists). Did anyone hear one person suggest that we ban knives after the Simpson trial?
1. If an American city is attacked by terrorists using military weapons such as grenade launchers, lighty artillery, etc, we will need citizens armed with military-type weapons such as 50-caliber sniper riles to stop such an attack. We can't place the entire burden of defense on local police. Local police could end up outgunned and outmanned in a coordinated terrorist attack. Then they would need US citizens to provide additional firepower.
Ban Waxman from the US Congress instead!