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Which would be classified as an assault weapon under proposed legislation
Spider Jerusalem
Jan 2013
#1
Any ban should require all such weapons be turned in pronto through some type of buy-back
indepat
Jan 2013
#14
Require insurance...based on the ability to take human lives...and periodic re-registration.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#2
The social shock will be tallying up the "product liability" and assessing the accompanying
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#11
Stop it with the cars = guns analogy. Several posters are presenting that argument, & it's silly.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#31
The poster wants ins for ALL guns. Not just AWs. She wants Grandma Pike's handgun in her nightstand.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#57
Yes, like the pastor who killed his wife with a gun, missed and just injured his daughter,
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#34
Yes, people will kill with guns...and knives...and cars...and rope...and their hands...and with
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#35
Yes, we shiver in fear over crowbar murders...and hangings. Let us look at your litany of weapons
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#44
The short answer...Product Liability. But here's where the car analogy breaks down...Cost to
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#68
As stated, the car/gun analogy only goes so far. They are synonymous in some aspects...
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#89
Like that Girandoni rifle that Lewis and Clark took into the wilderness 200 years ago
derby378
Jan 2013
#91
"Assault Weapon" is not reserved for rifles. The term would, or could, include just about
jmg257
Jan 2013
#9
In fact weapons are going to have to be regulated because of reckless behavior.
Thinkingabout
Jan 2013
#10
I will support that if it also requires rigid background checks and mental evaluations of drivers.
bucky balls
Jan 2013
#18
I've noticed a lot of posts here from folks who don't much care to 'regulate', as to 'ban'.
bucky balls
Jan 2013
#37
Which would you rather, to ban weapons or to regulate the size of magazines and ammo?
Thinkingabout
Jan 2013
#43
I'm very sorry, I am conversant in four languages, but sadly, gibberish is not one of them.
bucky balls
Jan 2013
#78
How about this? Guns that look like penis extenders will be used more often by small minded dicks
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2013
#33
Your life, liberty and happiness is far more endangered by thugs with penis shorteners
bucky balls
Jan 2013
#39
"Bullshit"? Gosh, what an erudite response. Look, I think Mr. LaPierre is an idiot, mainly because
bucky balls
Jan 2013
#80
And some can't stop thinking about them. You could always come out of the closet, yanno...
bucky balls
Jan 2013
#79
Marijuana and Cocaine are illegal. Yet, tons of each come across the border every week or so.
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2013
#69
The POINT is; there will be hundreds of thousands of semi-automatic handguns coming into the US.
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2013
#72
You must not know anything about Jamaica, where they passed a virtual ban on all guns
bucky balls
Jan 2013
#84
Wow, you found an isolated example of a case that contradicts the general trend.
dorkulon
Jan 2013
#86
It will push the killing back into the ghettos and slums where we can safely ignore it.
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#90