From Mr. Gunman's Christmas Eve Massacre Note: “I still have to
get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down and do what I like doing best — killing
people,” Well Mr. Gunman, enabled by the Bloody NRA, picked the
right mass murder tool, the military style AR-15 Bushmaster assault weapon with
an arsenal of high capacity, interchangeable magazine clips!
As Christmas Eve dawned in Webster, NY Mr. Gunman set a trap. When
fire fighters responded to the fire he set, he shot four of them with his
Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle, the same type of semiautomatic weapon used in
the school mass murder shooting 10 days earlier in Newtown, Conn. http://burlingtonareaprogressives.blogspot.com/2012/12/again-ban-weapons-of-mass-murder-again.html He murdered
two volunteer firemen and severely wounded two more before engaging in a
shootout with police and then blowing his own brains out.
“He was equipped to go to war to kill
innocent people,” the Webster police chief, Gerald L.
Pickering, said of Mr. Gunman.
When will we outlaw weapons of mass murder like the AR-15
Bushmaster and the high capacity magazine used by the mass murderer du jour in Aurora,
CO, Newton, CT, Webster, NY? Oh yeah, we already did it was called the
Assault Weapons Ban, but the Republicons gleefully let it expire in 2004 as
required by their puppet masters, the Bloody NRA, the lobbying arm of the gun
manufacturers that works feverishly to ensure their profits. It’s NOT REALLY about the 2ndAmendment,
it’s about the money.
I'm not against people having guns, but high powered, highly concealable guns with high capacity, easily interchangeable magazine clips that allowed the Virginia Tech mass murderer to spray 170 rounds in 5 minutes are not weapons of sport or self-defense. The only thing they are good for is mass murder. No one needs one and no one should have one, let aloneFour, three, one!
I'm not against people having guns, but high powered, highly concealable guns with high capacity, easily interchangeable magazine clips that allowed the Virginia Tech mass murderer to spray 170 rounds in 5 minutes are not weapons of sport or self-defense. The only thing they are good for is mass murder. No one needs one and no one should have one, let alone
For
crying out loud, give us a chance, at least make'em have to stop and RELOAD!
Which brings up a good point, actually. It’s not the guns
so much as the magazines that are the problem. I'm convinced that
interchangeable magazines should be illegal to manufacture or sell in the U.S.
They were designed for the military specifically so that soldiers can reload
quickly, which is what makes them so dangerous to public health and safety in
the hands of civilians.
There is no non-military use for these items. Simply
limiting the capacity of these clips to 10 rounds as was the case under the old
assault weapons ban and as is proposed by Sen. Feinstein will not do much good
because a killer can still reload in seconds.
Only guns that have internal magazines that require reloading rounds one at a time, like revolvers should be legal. And those magazines should be limited to 10 rounds max. Those types of guns are perfectly suitable for self-defense and hunting. Nothing more is needed and anything more is a much too substantial threat to public safety.
I honestly believe that if these mass murderers knew they could only kill a few people on their way out, it just wouldn't provide the "glory" they're looking for. They might just not bother with it if we take all the fun out of it for them. Anyway making them less deadly and protecting public safety while preserving our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, reasonably would be a very good thing.
Machine guns have been illegal since the 1930's and these mass murderers aren't using machine guns. Not because they wouldn't want the ability to kill even more people during their rampage, but because they are not easily available like the next best thing for Gunmen, military style, semi-automatic assault weapons with high capacity interchangeable magazines. It's time to make them illegal too!
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