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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Also, someone above said it is EASY to get assualt weapons and such. That is not true. Assult weapons have been banned in the US for quite some time. Although it may have expired in 2004 there are several attempts to re-instante it. With the dems in control again I am pretty sure it will happen this year.
BOb
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The assault weapons ban had nothing to do with what people perceive as assault weapons and has been thoroughly debunked as such since it's inception. Unfortunately the mainstream media continues to flat out lie about it, and current replacements. To clear something up, the assault weapon ban has nothing AT ALL to do with fully automatic firearms or machine guns. Those have in fact been highly controlled for many years, as class 3 weapons they have had their own laws applied to them since the '30s and has been continuously updated through the decades. In fact most of the deciding factors for the so-called assault weapons ban were determined by senators passing around gun catalogs and deciding what features looked 'evil'. (Not a rumor, this was done in full view of the public and press)
The media, in all its sensationalist glory continues to misinform the public on this issue. Which is nothing short of fearmongering. Every time the topic comes up the news like to show video footage of fully automatic AK-47's and AR-15's and talk about how this (or that) ban is designed to deal with the issue of criminals hosing down children and law enforcement with thousands of rounds of ammo. Just so we are clear, EVERY gun banned by the assault weapons ban fired ONE shot when the trigger was pulled. This blatant and disgusting misrepresenting of facts by lawmakers and the media should be downright criminal.
If you are against owning firearms, that is your business and I respect that, but deceiving the public and spending decades misrepresenting the facts is abhorrent. The media has also ignored the fact that a study to determine the effectiveness of the Assault Weapons ban that was instituted by the Clinton administration when it was passed was surpressed when it was determined that (I forget the length of the study, 10? 12 years?) the ban had no measurable effect on crime or the availability of weapons to criminals. In other words, 'our study didn't support our claims so we won't release it.' It is available, it just wasn't reported on.
I'm not citing sources since quite frankly I don't think anyone would read it and I'm not going to waste my time digging up the information.
-MJ