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Crepuscular

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Mon Jun 27, 2016, 02:36 PM
Jun 2016

So it's ok to deny due process just a little bit?

Secondly, Assault Weapon Bans are unlikely to save a single life, all they do is spur companies to create work-arounds and spur an increase in weapon sales. There are something like 10 - 15 million semi-automatic rifles in this country, as well as a number of other action designs using extended magazines. Unless you are somehow going to confiscate tens of millions of weapons and maybe a billion or so high capacity magazines, any AWB style attempts are highly unlikely to save a single one of the several hundred people a year killed with these types of weapons.

Someone crazed enough to kill dozens of people could do so equally effectively with readily available weapons such as this, which is fully compliant with every AWB that has been implemented or suggested.

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