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Two Democrat Gun Bills To Fight Like The Dickens thefederalist.com/2019/01/16/two…
Last Wednesday, @SenFeinstein introduced her latest bill, co-sponsored by 27 other Dem senators and Bernie Sanders, to ban new “assault weapons,” meaning mostly AR-15s and similar semi-automatic rifles. The bill would also ban ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
Such magazines are designed for defensive purposes and are primarily used in semi-automatic rifles and handguns for that purpose.
Feinstein’s bill would allow existing owners to keep their firearms and magazines. However, no one should be fooled. As mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein banned handguns from that city entirely until her ban was struck down in court.
Also, in 1995, talking about her first “assault weapon ban” on CBS “60 Minutes,” she said, “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn them all in, I would have done it. "
Feinstein is playing the long game. She knows she doesn’t have the votes for gun confiscation now.
Tuesday, Nancy Pelosi said Dems will resume their efforts to “expand” background checks on gun purchases - the first of several steps toward fundamentally transforming the background check system into a national gun registry --
-- that can be used to enforce gun confiscation, once Democrats have the votes for confiscation.
Even in a nation where Pollyannas believe facial recognition technology is designed to stop shoplifting, no one should be naïve enough to fall for Democrats’ pretenses that these bills are aimed at reducing crime.
According to the FBI, rifles, of which AR-15s and rifles like them are a subset, are used in only two percent of murders, while roughly 30 percent of murders are committed without firearms of any type.
More people are murdered with knives, more with bludgeons, and more by being beaten or kicked than with rifles of any type.
Also, studies by the DOJ have found that most criminals who use guns steal them, buy them on the black market, or get them with the help of a “straw purchaser" who buys the gun and immediately hands it over to the criminal waiting in the parking lot.
There is an exception. Most mass murderers who use guns submit themselves to background checks. However, they pass them.
As Northeastern University Prof James Alan Fox, the nation’s leading criminologist in the study of murder, has explained, “Most mass murderers do not have criminal records or a history of psychiatric hospitalization. They would not be disqualified from purchasing weapons legally”
Additionally, if Democrats cared about reducing crime, they would support President Trump’s effort to prevent violent criminals from illegally entering our country across our southern border.
After all, more people are murdered by illegal aliens than by anyone using any of the firearms Feinstein, other Democrats, and Sanders are proposing to ban.
