Cheers to Colorado Democrats, who are showing what you DO with a MAJORITY!!

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31. :shrug:

If you want to call it that.


There are some proposed gun-control laws that are reasonable and effective. There are some that are not reasonable but that are created by politicians for political gain.

Feinstein's new assault-weapons ban is one of them. It is designed to "do something". It is designed to give the appearance of progress, of "taking on the gun lobby", and to give its supporters a positive public image and, by extension, positives press and an influx of campaign funds. I can prove this quite simply: in her proposal, there is a two-page list of specific semiautomatic rifles fed from detachable magazines that are exempted from being defined as an "assault weapon", as well as a general statement that legalizes any semiauto rifle fed from detachable magazines as long as they don't have certain cosmetic features.

I am for reasonable and effective gun laws. However, after Newtown, the knee-jerk reaction was to re-institute a national ban on assault weapons. This was despite the fact that there has been an AWB continuously in effect in Connecticut since 1994, and the gun used at Newtown was not an "assault weapon". It was a Connecticut-legal semiautomatic rifle.

Pointing this out got me called a RW troll, a gun-worshipper, a child-killer, etc.

A ban on protruding pistol grips is not reasonable or effective.

There are gun control laws that I am for that the GOP is not, but I'm sure it's more fun waving the tar brush at me.