Semi-Automatic Weapons to be Legal Again

[ChristinaB]

The ban is expiring, the GOP refuses to allow a vote on extension. So now we can be overrun by a bunch of "legal" Semi-Automatic weapons.

Anyone buying?

Police Fear What Will Happen When Assault Weapons Ban Ends

[Bez]

Why the hell would anyone want semi-automatic weapons to be legal unless they're physcopathic?

[Michael Davis]

Perhaps to organize a militia in order to fight their own terroristic government.

-Michael

[HDPM]

Do you even know what a semi-auto is? Based on the tone of your post I am guessing you are one of the people who doesn't know. If I am wrong, then I'm sorry, but then again if you do know, you should know why they should be legal and you should have several. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[HDPM]

OK, you fell for the BS. The cop interviewed knows he can get lies past people who don't shoot. He says ending the ban will legalize machine guns. It won't. I read no further in the article. The ban limited the size of new magazines and banned the new manufacture of certain semi automatic weapons (which are NOT automatic, i.e. machine guns) with cosmetic characteristics gun banners were scared of. Semi autos were legal then and are legal now and most gun owners have them. So do most cops. So maybe the whiny liar cop should have his cops give up their semi auto pistols. After all, the police are just citizens. The 1994 ban was a moronic bill.

[Duke]

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Why the hell would anyone want semi-automatic weapons to be legal unless they're physcopathic?

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We should all be naked and helpless so the government can protect us better.

~D

[Zele]

Who are you worried about owning such a weapon that doesn't already have one? Where I live, Chicago, possession of a handgun is a felony. Consequently, I don't own a handgun. However, the guy that shoved a the barrel of his handgun in my roommate's mouth a few years back didn't seem to have any qualms about flouting the law. Thank God my friend wan't armed: the poor mugger could have been seriously injured!

[Bez]

You Americans are crazy. Ever wondered why children have never started gunning down their classmates after being bullied at school here in the UK?

[Zele]

Canada has just as high a concentration of guns as the US, and you don't hear about school shootings there, either. Gun laws are not an explanatory variable.

[Bez]

However, in the UK it would be very unlikely that a child could get hold of a gun. Obviously a hardened criminal still can, but would it be wise for his victim to also be armed? Anyone who retaliated would quite likely be seriously hurt or killed themselves. This would be -EV, even if they killed their attacker.