Posted on 02/19/2018 2:02:11 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
I need not dwell on the catastrophe of the Parkland, Florida mass murder last week. Such killings have become the new normal in America.
In five of the six deadliest mass shootings of the past six years in the United States (Newtown, San Bernardino. Las Vegas. Sutherland Springs, and Parkland) the gunman used an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
This is a weapon that was banned for individual ownership and usage by the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. This 10-year ban was legislatively enacted by a Democratic President, Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress.
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Cause getting shot with ANY other sort of gun would be SOOOOOO much better! /sarc
His shadow looks like Jesus!
School shootings are awful but totalitarian governments are worse and the 2nd Amendment is the only thing that prevents a totalitarian government from coming to power.
Great. Some guy I’ve never heard of has given himself the authority to decide how the rest of us must live our lives. These people are less than worthless. He’s a clueless egomaniac.
He’s a POS Jim..
Why does this guy get to claim he’s a Republican if he wants something only democrats want?
If he wants to ban some guns or all guns in his house, let him do it. He has no right to tell me what I should do in my house.
Blue state Republicans are still needed to win elections.
Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki, Tom Ridge, Christie Whitman are needed because they win suburbanites-—people who are leaving the GOP.
Amazing ignorance. The AR-15 was NOT banned by the 1994 Assault Weapons law.
They want absolute control. An armed population is the problem.
Yeah? Well I served beginning age 17 under Nixon and I say let’s repeal the 1987 FOPA that banned MGs made after 1987.
It’s not about the guns, or knives, or trucks, or whatever. It’s about the mentally ill—which already are not allowed to own firearms. We used to have institutions that took care of these people to keep them from hurting themselves or others. Then the “do-gooders” closed the institutions and dispersed the nutjobs into the general population. What did they expect? Guess they really didn’t think that through.
Anyway, the 2nd Amendment isn’t about hunting, or home defense. It’s to keep the Government afraid of the the People, not the other way around, and that was actually brilliant of the Founding Fathers. It is the only reason this country is as free as it is.
I’d rather ban big government statists.
The AR15 doesn’t do anything different from 60 million semiautomatic weapons in the USA.
Yeah, Bush was a big neocon, Paul Wolfowitz kind of a guy.
Actually, MA is still operated under the AWB.
I bought an AR15 a few years ago. This person might want to review their facts.
I love how they say “I’m like you” before they go into their gun grabbing dialog. All these people announcing they would now be willing ban the AR, never were for the 2nd amendment in the first place.
So was Clinton:
Ain't Myth Romney a swell fella?
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