Raistlin
Member
Well, you know the editors at the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation just had to put in their two cents on the AWB, but I'll bet they weren't expecting the response...
The Atlanta Journal-Consitution
Letters to the Editor
Sunday, August 1, 2004
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/letters/index.html (registration req'd).
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The Atlanta Journal-Consitution
Letters to the Editor
Sunday, August 1, 2004
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/letters/index.html (registration req'd).
ASSAULT WEAPONS
Responses to "Keep doors closed to assault weapons," Editorial, July 25
Criminals unlikely to abide by ban
If I didn't know better, your editorial would make me think an "assault rifle" is nothing more than a semi-automatic rifle that looks scary. Indeed, that's the criterion the congressmen in charge of enacting the ban used when it started.
Real assault rifles, capable of fully automatic fire, are not among the weapons banned under the 1994 act. Liberals call the banned semi-automatic rifles "assault weapons" to play on people's emotions while hoping the people remain ignorant enough to buy their line.
Does anyone think criminals will stop and consider which weapons are banned and which aren't before committing crimes? They certainly won't seek guns that are banned because they look scary. Instead, they will go for something that is illegal due to its functioning -- a real assault rifle, not the liberal version of one.
Gun stand teaches politicians a lesson
The issue is not which guns criminals have, but what arms citizens have for defending their families and property against criminals and henchmen of crooked politicians.
The semi-automatic ban was passed under questionable circumstances in 1993. President Clinton admitted it was the biggest factor why so many of his friends, like former U.S. Rep. Buddy Darden, were not re-elected in 1994. The U.S. House of Representatives repealed the ban in 1996 by a comfortable margin. Bob Dole blocked the repeal in the Senate, and that was the end of his political career.
It's taken 10 years, but politicians are learning that when you side with the anti-gunners, voters throw you out of office. We want to see which congressmen from Georgia vote for the semi-auto ban now.
Guns for us, too
Criminals can always get assault weapons -- and do. So why can't qualified U.S. citizens have them, too?
Confiscated guns were totally legal
Your editorial reports that "In April, Italian officials intercepted more than 8,000 AK-47 assault rifles smuggled out of the Romanian port of Constanta bound to a gun dealer in Georgia."
The firearms were not smuggled. As widely reported at the time by, among others, the Associated Press and even the gun control advocates of the Violence Policy Center, the firearms were properly documented and legal for importation, lawful modification and re-sale as parts of lawful rifles.
The gun control debate asks life-and-death questions. Those who enter that debate with disregard for the facts -- especially journalists and celebrities -- are simply playing with other people's lives.
NRA members hardly 'extreme'
I resent your implication that the National Rifle Association is an "extreme" gun lobby and its members are terrorists.
I am a member of the NRA. I enjoy competing in rifle matches. They require a lot of conditioning and practice to shoot effectively. The people that I have met who compete in this sport are NRA members and are the most safety-conscious and law-abiding citizens you could ever meet.
If you want to debate this issue, stick to the facts. If you want to write about extremist organizations, investigate the anti-gun lobby, whose real objectives are to disarm America. Wouldn't the terrorists love that?
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