Email from my Senator - "semiautomatic weapons"

[rick_reno]

Senator Larry Craig (Idaho) uses the correct terminology. I like to propose that we stop using the anti-gun invented term of "assault weapon" for these guns.

Semiautomatic weapons ban expires

On Monday, September 13, 2004 the decade-long ban on some semiautomatic firearms will expire. This ban was based on misinformation about the nature of semiautomatics and driven by the false notion that gun bans can curb crime. In truth, these guns aren’t any faster, meaner, or more powerful than guns that aren’t banned. As for the ban’s impact on crime, the results are in: Semiautomatics were used in fewer than 3% of gun crimes before the ban, and they’re used in fewer than 3% of gun crimes today. The 1994 law’s restrictions only burdened law-abiding citizens and businesses, not criminals. I am pleased that Congress has decided not to renew this piece of bad legislation.

 

[Jeff Timm]

Since gun control is basically racist, let's call them ****** Guns.

Geoff
Who calls 'um like he sees 'um.

 

[Foreign Devil]

I know you mean no harm, but that language could get you in trouble here.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Since gun control is basically racist, let's call them ****** Guns.

I know you mean no harm, but that language could get you in trouble here.

I never have advocated nor ever will advocate the use of racial epithets; that saidâ„¢, I believe it would be a good idea for us to remember the origins of the term "Saturday night special." It was originally "Niggertown Saturday night special."

We need to remember America's first so-called "gun control" laws were designed to disarm recently freed slaves in the late 1860s and 1870s. We need to bear in mind that when leftist extremists today talk about "gun control" and "public safety" and "violent crime," they're really talking about young black urban males.

I think we need to call racism "racism" wherever and whenever it rears its ugly head.

 

[AF_INT1N0]

Standing Wolf-- Well said, I have always found it odd that the same people calling for tolerance could back a such a blatantly racist platform.

See also blatantly against the poor. But then again If you are willing to give up your protection for a pair of Nikes or some tickets to the Lakers, then I guess you diserve whatever piss poor protection the nanny governement (may) give you.