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BY JASON EASLEY a Politicususa
A Majority Of Americans Now Favor A Mandatory Buyback Of Assault Weapons
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/09/10/a-majority-of-americans-now-favor-a-mandatory-buyback-of-assault-weapons.html
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By a margin of 52%-44%, the American people support a mandatory program that would force assault weapon owners to sell their guns to the government. The Second Amendment is not an unlimited right, no matter what the gun lobby suggests.
The point of the poll finding is whether it is through a gun buyback or some other action, the majority of Americans are sending a loud message that they want assault weapons off of the streets. Republicans in Congress, Trump, and the NRA can try to claim otherwise, but the American people can see where the mass shooting problem is coming from, and it is not from video games or mental illness.
The problem is that more people are dying mass shooting incidents because of the ease and availability of assault weapons. Get rid of assault weapons, and the number of fatalities in these attacks will go down. Removing assault weapons wont end mass shootings. The goal is to make it more difficult for mass shooters to kill and injure scores of people in a few minutes.
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FakeNoose
(32,599 posts)At least people are finally talking sense about it, that's a change!
Chuuku Davis
(565 posts)Does it include my Remington 742?
Or my grandson's Ruger 10/22?
Fla_Democrat
(2,547 posts)Chuuku Davis
(565 posts)Those are not "assault weapons".
Millions of Americans own them.
The PR will not look good.
IMHO.
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)grumpyduck
(6,225 posts)that the individual assholes who SHOULD turn their weapons in are going to do so...
... and that these weapons are not going to be available thru other channels to assholes who want them...
... and that the NRA isn't going to go all-out to get assholes riled up: "See, we told you so - the government wants to take away your Constitutional right to protect yourself against it."
I don't know what the answer is, but I'm pretty damn sure that ain't it. Might be a small part of it, but not the whole answer.
spanone
(135,795 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)dubious reasons. Like any bad investment, tough chit.
If a buyback is only way, I could probably agree to a small amount or they can trade their semiautomatic for a bolt or lever action rifle.
hack89
(39,171 posts)That is why politicians can safely ignore polls like this.