Summary of Feinstein's Gun Bill coming in January

[dead0man]

AWB 2:the stupider

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Weird that the only gun thread on this message board dealing with actual proposed policy has the fewest (by far it seems) gun control nuts posting in it.  No, weird isn't the right word.

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Which aspect of it do you think will lead to a reduction in crime?

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I'm beginning to think that this is a little like healthcare, war, Roman style occupations of other countries, and now guns. I keep reading that assault weapons and high magnitude rifles are selling like cups of mocha on a cold winter night out of "fear" of gun bans. Which is absurd,

Indeed, almost as absurd as infringing on the rights of millions of to go after weapons that only kill 500 Americans a year.

[dead0man]

Help like the last one helped?

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Which aspect of it do you think will lead to a reduction in crime?

All aspects. The harder it is to procure a powerful gun, the less likely that it will be used to commit a crime.

Do you know how many people in Maryland were murdered by someone using one of these "powerful guns"?  2.  That is, two.  Do you know how many were murdered with hands and feet? 17 ALMOST NINE TIMES AS MANY!  How about knives? 75!

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Then why not make it 8? or 3? Do you know how long it takes to reload a magazine?  Not very.  Do you know how many people are killed by that 11th and 12th round in 12 round magazines?  I don't, but I bet it's pretty freaking small.

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Indeed a couple of those might actually do something to slow down crime (that is already awfully slow), but banning rifles of any kind is as stupid as invading Iraq after a bunch of Saudis flew planes into buildings.

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Of course you do, you know it won't help much, but hey, we've got to do something!

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By this logic, I shouldn't care about those in Sandy Hook because they don't live in Maryland (?). I'm not under the illusion that something that can happen in Arizona, Oregon, California, Virginia, Connecticut, and Colorado can't happen in Maryland.

Except the numbers concerning the "powerful guns" are the same in all these places.  Very very few people are murdered by rifles, period.  Banning rifles of any stripe is going to restrict millions of regular Americans for the benefit of almost nothing.  It was stupid last time and it's stupid this time.

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and that's effing stupid too, just like AWB2 would be and the AWB was.