Bush Let Assault Weapons Back On America's Streets

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POSTED: 5:24 pm CDT September 15, 2004

Assault weapons will soon be back on America's streets again -- thanks to President George W. Bush and Congress. <snip>

By allowing the law to lapse, Congress has signaled that it might next end the ban on handguns within Washington, D.C. The nation's capital now has a 100 percent ban on firearms of any kind. <snip>

In a letter to the New York Times Monday, Robert Morgenthau, the district attorney for New York County, said the assault weapons ban has become widely accepted, even among gun owners.

The ban has made us all safer, Morgenthau said. He added that the end of the ban "will needlessly jeopardize our police; one in five officers killed in the line of duty between 1998 and 2001 was killed with an assault weapons, according to an analysis of FBI data." <snip>

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