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In reply to the discussion: Florida father with assault weapon forces wife to watch as he kills two sons [View all]sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts).50 cal. weapons should be illegal. Use of at least one .50 cal. sniper rifle prompted the authorities to request armored vehicles during the Branch Davidian confrontation and seriously escalated that affair. That no one was killed by that weapon was unlikely due to a lack of intent. The potential carnage such a weapon can inflict is frightening. People are not killed with miniguns and howitzers because they are illegal. You cannot buy one at a gun show. The argument was not about any suggestion on overturning the ban on such weapons. It was to show the logical absurdity of the argument against firearms regulation, and yes, there are plenty of gunslingers out there who feel that way. I know some of them personally, so they cannot be uncommon.
Everyday that passes without federal action on any kind of regulation, meaningful or otherwise, is a victory for the NRA and the gun manufacturers. Everyday nothing is done in Congress increases the likelihood that Sandy Hook will go down the memory hole and the issue will just fade away until the next massacre, at which time the cycle will repeat, and the outcome will be the same.