[Krodg]

The question you should be asking is: "what are the politicians planning to do to us that is so bad that they don't want us to have rifles around?"

It may come as a surprise to you but there are some people who are very conservative, yet know nothing about guns. While I support the right to bear arms, I would vote for a ban on assault weapons.....unless someone takes the time to educate me in simple terms. Example...I didn't know that a rifle was an assault weapon.

[Mulder]

It may come as a surprise to you but there are some people who are very conservative, yet know nothing about guns.

I think this is true, which is all the more reason for Republicans in leadership positions to eductate people about it instead of pandering to a dumbed-downed electorate.

Real leaders inform and persuade as Reagan did.

[Yankee]

It may come as a surprise to you but there are some people who are very conservative, yet know nothing about guns.

Like my girfriend who knew nothing about, and was afraid of guns when I met her.

Over time she became interested, and I took her to the range and taught her to shoot. Now she has an appreciation for guns, gun safety and responsible gun owners, and is no longer succeptable to the loony anti-gun arguments of the left

But you aren't going to persuade people like her by starting off with "I'm arming myself against a tyrannical government".

She was already a pro life and anti tax conservative when I met her, but being a suburban Long Islander, the gun issue was foreign to her.

[Ouachita]

While I support the right to bear arms, I would vote for a ban on assault weapons.....unless someone takes the time to educate me in simple terms.

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If assault weapons are so rarely used in crime, why all the hoopla when certain military-style-semi-automatic weapons were banned by the Crime Control Act of 1994? A Washington Post editorial (September 15, 1994) summed it up best:

No one should have any illusions about what was accomplished (by the ban). Assault weapons play a part in only a small percentage of crime. The provision is mainly symbolic; its virtue will be if it turns out be be, as hoped, a stepping stone to broader gun control.