The Lies of The Left
As I write this, John Kerry is talking about the gun ban that expired today. His comments made his tales about Vietnam sound like gospel truth. First he pointed to seventy police chiefs who, he claimed, would now be threatened in their jobs by military machine guns and Uzis because of the lapse of this gun ban.
This is an absolute lie, not a misstatement or one of his typical "nuanced" non-answers but an out and out lie. Fully automatic or selective fire weapons have been banned since 1934! The gun ban that expired was a ban on scary-looking guns.
Do you know how those proud legislators decided a decade ago which guns to ban? Did they ask engineers or experts in the field? No. Did they go to a rifle range and determine which weapons were more destructive? No. Did they look at the gun violence statistics to see which weapons were used more than others? Not even. They looked through gun catalogs and picked out weapons that looked too military or that had big banana clips hanging off them, that's how!
Ten years ago the Clinton administration passed a piece of feel-good legislation that would make them look like they were doing something. Even a recent review of the legislation and crime statistics by the Justice Department was able to find no correlation between the drop in gun violence and the assault weapons ban. Everyone got a photo-of and nothing else.
I have absolutely no desire to purchase an AK or Uzi look-alike. I find large banana magazines difficult to use from the bench or a prone position. But there are people who enjoy shooting these guns, so what exactly is the big deal?
When the ban went into effect all that happened is the manufacturers removed the bayonet lugs and flash suppressors then replaced the black plastic stocks with wooden ones and continued selling the same weapons with nothing more than cosmetic changes.
Now all we have to do is get the government to sunset or repeal the other twenty gazillion stupid laws on the books and we might be able to breath easy for a year or two. Of course, the right is not immune to the same silliness. Wow, prescription benefits for seniors. I believe the last estimate I heard for this was something like three trillion dollars for this program - to be paid by those of us who haven't retired yet. Arrrgh!
This is an absolute lie, not a misstatement or one of his typical "nuanced" non-answers but an out and out lie. Fully automatic or selective fire weapons have been banned since 1934! The gun ban that expired was a ban on scary-looking guns.
Do you know how those proud legislators decided a decade ago which guns to ban? Did they ask engineers or experts in the field? No. Did they go to a rifle range and determine which weapons were more destructive? No. Did they look at the gun violence statistics to see which weapons were used more than others? Not even. They looked through gun catalogs and picked out weapons that looked too military or that had big banana clips hanging off them, that's how!
Ten years ago the Clinton administration passed a piece of feel-good legislation that would make them look like they were doing something. Even a recent review of the legislation and crime statistics by the Justice Department was able to find no correlation between the drop in gun violence and the assault weapons ban. Everyone got a photo-of and nothing else.
I have absolutely no desire to purchase an AK or Uzi look-alike. I find large banana magazines difficult to use from the bench or a prone position. But there are people who enjoy shooting these guns, so what exactly is the big deal?
When the ban went into effect all that happened is the manufacturers removed the bayonet lugs and flash suppressors then replaced the black plastic stocks with wooden ones and continued selling the same weapons with nothing more than cosmetic changes.
Now all we have to do is get the government to sunset or repeal the other twenty gazillion stupid laws on the books and we might be able to breath easy for a year or two. Of course, the right is not immune to the same silliness. Wow, prescription benefits for seniors. I believe the last estimate I heard for this was something like three trillion dollars for this program - to be paid by those of us who haven't retired yet. Arrrgh!
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