Pretty typical of planned legislation getting the way greased with op-ed "discussions" in the newspapers. The fluff about the assault weapons ban expiration being the cause for increased violence would make good fertilizer in anyone's garden.
Got a news flash: The assault weapon ban didn't stop the sale of assault style weapons at all. The only difference between a "pre-ban" gun and a "post-ban" gun (besides the price tag) was that the post ban didn't have a flash suppressor, folding stock and bayonet lug. Whoopdie doo... I'm sure those minor deletions in the manufacturing process REALLY made a big difference in the functionality of the gun. What the anti-gunners did was to take something like an AR-15, set it on a table and figure out what it was about them that made them so scary looking to them. So they used that description to pass a law against them based on DESCRIPTION and nothing else. Assault weapons available to the public are semi-automatic, NOT machine guns like the press tried to foist on everyone. They are generally less accurate than your Uncle Bill's hunting rifle, and truth be known, the ammunition used in an assault weapon is considered of only moderate power. A 30-06 in a hunting rifle will do a HELL of a lot more damage than a 5.56 round in an AR-15 will do.
So if criminal aggression increased since the expiration of the assault weapons ban, it's not the guns, stupid. It's the people. As has been pointed out, if you make law enforcement ineffective, prosecution unlikely, and the penalties less harsh than their living conditions already are, what do you THINK will be the result? When the economic situation gets desperate for some people, getting caught committing a crime and going to jail will be a step UP in their living conditions. So what's the incentive to NOT engage in crime?
And I'll tell you something else. With the policies in place from Washington D.C. with NAFTA, outsourcing our jobs, no restrictions on illegal immigration, no protections to our own industrial base from dumping of cheap foreign made products, and an apparent complete lack of concern from our elected officials to put America first, things are going to get MUCH worse. If you have illegal immigrants taking all the low paying jobs, and all the higher paying jobs being outsourced, with the blue collar manufacturing jobs moving offshore with the companies moving their operations, what is going to be left in America for US? I'll tell you what. A bunch of unemployed desperate people with no possibility of them being able to pull themselves out of the problem. No jobs means no income means no food on the table. NO one will just let their family starve.
It's no damned wonder that the government would like to disarm us. They KNOW that what they are doing is going to have a bunch of desperate pissed off people in the streets.
You think things are bad now? You ain't seen NOTHING yet......
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