Sen. Al Franken Raises Doubts About Support For Assault Weapons Ban

[krispos42]

38. The question is not awfulness.

The question is effectivness. An AWB is the "appearance" of action. It is not action, not real action.


It's a "massive political victory!" It's a "sharp blow to the NRA!"


And it means that people can still own semiautomatic, magazine-fed rifles as long as they take off a secondary feature or two.


So you've irritated gun owners, who feel they have to be politically active about this issue, for the Democrats to try to appeal to... who?

People that don't own guns and have no interest in doing so have to do absolutely, literally NOTHING to continue to do so. Democrats already have the vote of people that want to disarm in one fashion or another the general population.


The NRA was reduced in relevancy last election because of the general ineptness and short coattails of Romney, and because Obama didn't move on gun control.

Now, every person that warned that Obama would be moving on gun control once he was elected for his final term has been 100% vindicated.

If the grandstanding politicians really were serious about this, they would be calling for a ban on all semi-automatic rifles and shotguns instead of trying to draw some imaginary and arbitrary line between "good" and "assault" semi-autos. But, they aren't, which means they are either clueless about guns (which I doubt; they have staffs for a reason) or they're interested in a propaganda victory for 2014.