Piece at Fox News: "The truth about assault weapons bans and background checks"
This piece starts this way:
With the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting this week, it's likely that new gun control bills will be drafted very quickly. There are in essence two parts to the bills: the part that deals with the “assault weapon ban” and the part that deals with “universal background checks.” The first one faces long odds of passage, but the second might well pass.
Democrats will undoubtedly push for an assault weapons ban. The ban has become a central tenant of the Democratic party, with Obama's calls "to get weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines off our streets" and even Michelle Obama claiming crimes are being committed with “automatic weapons.” Senator Dianne Feinstein is pushing hard to reinstitute the earlier assault weapon ban, which she had originally enacted in 1994.
Proponents of an "Assault Weapons Ban" often argue their point by posing the question: "Why do people need a semiautomatic Bushmaster to go out and kill deer?" . . .
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posted by John Lott at 2:23 PM
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What is most difficult about the rhetoric that Sen. Feinstein and others use is that it shows their ignorance of the culture of gun ownership and dismisses law abiding genuinely good people. She gets the technical terms wrong and assumes things that are illegal on the part of gun owners such as using large magazines to deer hunt which is illegal in many states.
This precludes any good faith discussion of violence, crime, safety (not "gun safety" which means one thing to me and another to Sen. Feistein) or legal means to discourage mass murder, etc. No gun owner wants murder or gun related crime as far as I can tell, but you would not know it reading the national press.
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