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baldguy

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25. That's because it was so riddled with loopholes from RW NRA lobbyists.

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 01:07 PM

Mar 2013

The original AWB certainly worked as far as it went. But to shout "It failed! It failed!" and then go on to show an example of why with a weapon crafted to get around the ban just doesn't wash. What we need to do is fix it and improve it so it's better than it was - and not just give up, give in & surrender to the carnage simply because the GOP Congress & the Bush Regime allowed the AWB to expire.

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There are a lot of reasons someone would want to fire 30 rounds without reloading [View all] Snarkoleptic Mar 2013 OP

"All of them are shitty." 99Forever Mar 2013 #1

Kicked X 154 Paladin Mar 2013 #2

"All of them are shitty" lobodons Mar 2013 #3

One reason: if you're in the military. . . DinahMoeHum Mar 2013 #4

+1 freshwest Mar 2013 #33

I was getting ready to say essentially the same thing Victor_c3 Mar 2013 #35

Need a background check to enlist?? Touche!! DinahMoeHum Mar 2013 #44

Go ahead and get it out - the AWB has failed. aikoaiko Mar 2013 #5

Well, the coroner said he did. AtheistCrusader Mar 2013 #7

Not sure either. JimDandy Mar 2013 #18

Instead of grave-dancing, why not try offering suggestions to make the AWB better & more effective? baldguy Mar 2013 #8

The AWB as a means of reducing violence is flawed at the start aikoaiko Mar 2013 #12

Except that other countries that ban assault weapons have a much lower rate of gun violence. baldguy Mar 2013 #13

What country only bans so called assault weapons and saw a change in murder rates? aikoaiko Mar 2013 #15

What country allows assault weapons and saw a change in murder rates? baldguy Mar 2013 #16

I'm with Baldguy-back your claim up curlyred Mar 2013 #17

Adam Lanza - his rifle was compliant with the 1994 AWB aikoaiko Mar 2013 #21

That's because it was so riddled with loopholes from RW NRA lobbyists. baldguy Mar 2013 #25

No loopholes. Lanza's rifle was defined in 1994 by DiFi, Joe Biden et al as AOK to own. aikoaiko Mar 2013 #27

I'd like to see proof of that. Please provide a link showing that Sen Feinstein and VP Biden baldguy Mar 2013 #29

Show you where allowing them works? I have never heard of them working. aikoaiko Mar 2013 #23

How about Australia and the UK? jazzimov Mar 2013 #34

That's right. I said only assault weapons aikoaiko Mar 2013 #36

Wow, you are generous in your selfishness. All those solutions and not a single jmg257 Mar 2013 #20

Universal background checks are important aikoaiko Mar 2013 #30

Oh i do, and not half-assed either...100%, and combined with registration. jmg257 Mar 2013 #32

Message auto-removed Baraki Mar 2013 #39

There's an extremely good reason: IveWornAHundredPants Mar 2013 #6

If you want to punch holes in a piece of paper Doc_Technical Mar 2013 #10

I could also use a bow and arrow IveWornAHundredPants Mar 2013 #11

I could also use a bow and arrow AlbertCat Mar 2013 #22

You see? They're more useful than we thought. IveWornAHundredPants Mar 2013 #24

"Because I can" was the reason I was given when discussing this last night neverforget Mar 2013 #9

That's the justification they need to remember when the government interest jmg257 Mar 2013 #28

No, thats not how it works. beevul Mar 2013 #38

Agreed on several points. No doubt about selfishness. jmg257 Mar 2013 #40

Gotta stop the zombie deer... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #14

That's the exception to the rule! Snarkoleptic Mar 2013 #19

Yet the gun violence apologists here love those reasons! villager Mar 2013 #26

Oh, there's a VERY good reason. After a case of Miller Lite, you NEED 30 rounds... talkingmime Mar 2013 #31

If they are so evil hack89 Mar 2013 #37

Depending upon how one defines them there are probably billions of "assault" magazines Peter cotton Mar 2013 #41

Largely because our pols haven't the stomach to take on the issue. Snarkoleptic Mar 2013 #42

They are proposing effective legislation hack89 Mar 2013 #43