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Permalink Reply by DTOM on December 17, 2012 at 10:46am

That bitch Feinstein has been itching for this for years...a bill is already ready to go - what a co-inkydink!!!

“I’m going to introduce in the Senate and the same bill will be introduced in the House, a bill to ban assault weapons. It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. Not retroactively but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets. So there will be a bill. We’ve been working on it now for a year,” Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” during a discussion about guns following Friday’s deadly mass shooting as a Connecticut school. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/16/feinstein...

"People who own such weapons now would not be required to give them up, Feinstein said."

For now...

Watch hi-cap mag, parts kit and AR upper and 80% lower sales soar...

Next step, will be outright ban and delaration of martial law...

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Permalink Reply by Nathan on December 18, 2012 at 4:28pm

Invincible Ignorance

Thomas Sowell

Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of "gun control" advocates?

The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns.  They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.  

If gun control zealots had any respect for facts, they would have discovered this long ago, because there have been too many factual studies over the years to leave any serious doubt about gun control laws being not merely futile but counterproductive.

Places and times with the strongest gun control laws have often been places and times with high murder rates.  Washington, D.C., is a classic example, but just one among many.

When it comes to the rate of gun ownership, that is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas.  The rate of gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, but the murder rate is higher among blacks.  For the country as a whole, hand gun ownership doubled in the late 20th century, while the murder rate went down.

The few counter-examples offered by gun control zealots do not stand up under scrutiny.  Perhaps their strongest talking point is that Britain has stronger gun control laws than the United States and lower murder rates.

But, if you look back through history, you will find that Britain has had a lower murder rate than the United States for more than two centuries-- and, for most of that time, the British had no more stringent gun control laws than the United States.  Indeed, neither country had stringent gun control for most of that time.

In the middle of the 20th century, you could buy a shotgun in London with no questions asked.  New York, which at that time had had the stringent Sullivan Law restricting gun ownership since 1911, still had several times the gun murder rate of London, as well as several times the London murder rate with other weapons. 

Neither guns nor gun control was the reason for the difference in murder rates.  People were the difference.

More here: http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/12/18/invincible-i...

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on December 19, 2012 at 7:53am

First step is to collect guns from law abiding citizens. The second step in response to the resulting rising crime rates is to complete the police state and put swat teams on the streets. A very gloomy outlook indeed.

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Permalink Reply by 3dstkr4yzrciy on December 18, 2012 at 6:54pm

One thing that confuses me is, with all the talk of terrorism and terrorists isnt being an armed populace to our advantage? After all we really dont have much of a military to speak of lingering around here in the country. I guess the talking heads dint think of that, or did they...hmmm.

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