"This Is What a Gun Control March on Washington Looks Like"

[bobclark86]

33. Some people don't swallow the whole platform...

Some people make up their own minds.

I think the AWB is a fallacy, targeting only a fraction of murders in this country which is aimed at making some suburban people feel better. If I lived in a major city, I would be obscenely more worried about handguns, which kill more people by about 21 times.

Gangs and drug dealers don't use semi-auto AR-15 clones. They use handguns because they can be carried and hidden easily in broad daylight, are small enough to steal in a burglary, and can be bought illegally very easily (straw purchasing and buying from family are very common and nearly impossible to regulate until after a crime has been committed).

The murder weapons of choice in my area (rural) for the past decade? Beer and liquor bottles, followed by knives and then handguns (we don't have many murders, and all are either drunk frat boys, drug dealing or the one-off loony guy shooting his neighbor over parking).

All that said, I have no real problem with NYS's new gun law (the 7-round ban is kinda silly, because you can keep 10-round mags and load them full at a gun club, but not at home on the "back 40&quot . Also, I support every other position on the Democratic platform.