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In reply to the discussion: Strike while the gun is still smoking. Insist on an assault weapons ban. NOW. [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)58. No assault rifle can be an assault weapon. Period
They are mutually exclusive definitions.
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Strike while the gun is still smoking. Insist on an assault weapons ban. NOW. [View all]
pnwmom
Dec 2012
OP
Fuck the NRA and fuck the anti-sanity brigade/gun nutz that are enablers of the tragedy today.
Care Acutely
Dec 2012
#5
I'm curious what gun laws do you think are too loose and to easy to get around?
Trunk Monkey
Dec 2012
#40
why did they remove it in the first place? Members of legislatures who have been making weapons
still_one
Dec 2012
#2
The original assault weapon ban ( which Bill Clinton blames for the loss of the 94 mid terms)
Trunk Monkey
Dec 2012
#6
They have effectively had republican control since bush. How has that been working out for them?
still_one
Dec 2012
#8
It addresses weapons that taking a lot of people out. 100 thousand people per year are hurt by guns
still_one
Dec 2012
#92
no, but assault weapons are for one purpose only, to take out a lot of people
still_one
Dec 2012
#98
I've never understood the need for assault weapons. I've heard the logic that if THEY, the military
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#3
I've never understood why people with no idea of what "assault weapon" means...
Recursion
Dec 2012
#56
A DU gun nut just tried to tell me there is no such thing as "assault weapons".
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#7
I keep seeing that kind of thing. As if it makes a bit of difference to a thinking person
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#14
While there's need for a discussion, next-day kneejerk legislation is the very worst kind. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#28
That's because of a major loophole involving private sales -- which can and should be closed.
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#64
No. It's because it banned a completely arbitrary and stupid set of features
Recursion
Dec 2012
#100
You're even admitting it doesn't matter if the AWB would be relevant to preventing this crime...
Recursion
Dec 2012
#60
Putting the horrific tradgedy aside and simply analyzing the content of this OP...
OneTenthofOnePercent
Dec 2012
#85
Handguns and shotguns have been used way, way more in crime, including homicide
derby378
Dec 2012
#101