Posted on 12/21/2012 6:55:00 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
The federal judge who sentenced former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' gunman is advocating a nationwide ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines to take the "mass out of mass shootings." "There is just no reason civilians need to own assault weapons and high-capacity magazines," Judge Larry Allan Burns wrote in Thursday's Los Angeles Times.
Since Jared Lee Loughner killed six people and wounded Giffords with his 31-round magazine Glock pistol, there have been six deadlier mass shootings, Burns wrote.
"But reasonable, good-faith debates have boundaries, and in the debate about guns, a high-capacity magazine has always seemed to me beyond them," he wrote.
He noted that Adam Lanza used a semiautomatic rifle with a 30-round magazine to slaughter 20 first-graders and 6 staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
James Holmes, the accused gunman in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre that left 12 people dead and 58 others wounded, used a rifle with a 100-round drum, he added.
While admitting it might not prevent the next crazed gunman from going on a rampage, Burns said taking away high-capacity magazines could cut down on casualties.
"We might be able to take the 'mass' out of 'mass shooting,' or at least make the perpetrator's job a bit harder," wrote Burns, adding that he is a gun owner and a conservative appointed to the federal bench by former President George W. Bush.
Burns suggested that at a minimum the federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 should be brought back "with some teeth this times."
"Ban the manufacture, importation, sale, transfer and possession of both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines," he wrote.
"Don't let people who already have them keep them. Don't let ones that have already been manufactured stay on the market," he suggested, referring to two provisions in the old assault weapons ban. "I don't care whether it's called gun control or a gun ban. I'm for it."
Of course.
People reach for the safety as a reflex, not knowing that the loss of freedom is the cost. It’s an impulse purchase.
“There is just no reason civilians need to own assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” - Judge Larry Allan Burns”
We need them to fight tin horn tyrants like this judge.
Once the exchange is complete then the sheeple will realize they have none of both.
But then it will be to late.
Impeach him
Is there ANY damn leftist in the USA that hasn't uttered those precise words in the last week?
Similarly, there is no reason for liberal judges and their friends to hold wine & cheese parties when beer busts would do just as well.
“Don’t let people who already have them keep them.”
Molon labe.
Judge Larry Allan Burns
Hey Larry!!! shut your stupid Mouth.
long thread......no mention of judge roll killed same day as giffords...???
Gun control is not about guns, safety, nor the “children”. Gun control is about control!
It's that pesky Constitution thingy again. Those that don't know or understand history are doomed to repeat it. And I'm not even talking about ancient history. We only need to look back less than 100 years.
The real dictators (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pot) first removed guns from their people, then they killed the people, even those that agreed with them. Over 150 million of them in the 20th century.
Wake up Americans. Evil is with us. Adolph Obama is looking for his place in the history books. Unfortunatly no one will be able to read them.
When did a Glock become an assault weapon.
A Judge is a gear in the machinery of “State Security” make no mistake & have no illusions the judges first loyalty is not to your rights but to the “States “ ability to maintain absolute control. When you look at it from this point of view you understand that the “State” is not your friend but is composed of folks who will if ordered drag you out of your home in the middle of the night & “disappear “ you .
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