I hate it when we back down

[kacekwl]

before we try as hard as possible. Assault weapons must be banned. Raising the age is weak. If you want to go that route raise the age to 65.

[harumph]

1. Something is better than nothing.

Plus - pushing legislation that has a snowball's chance in hell of passing due to R intransigence is
politically dumb - because we lose anyway, look weak plus get NOTHING accomplished.

[elleng]

2. Yes.

[kacekwl]

3. We look weak

when we give it up before a vote. At least get them on record. Then when they ask what did Sleepy Joe do about guns after the next massacre he can shove it up their ass .

[Polybius]

7. Sleepy Joe?

You should delete that.

[kacekwl]

9. Come on, I was pointing out

what is going to be said by the side that gets heard will say. It's true and I delete nothing.

[SYFROYH]

4. AWB are probably the least effective way to reduce gun deaths.

The numbers just don't add up.

[choie]

5. Sure seemed to work in Australia

n/t

[SYFROYH]

6. Australia like the UK didnt have a lot of mass shootings to begin with.

Plus they implemented a wide scale gun confiscation.

[Amishman]

10. The real lift with their ban, our 1994 ban, and others is magazine capacity

I'm not aware of any assault weapons ban that didn't include that critical restriction

[Initech]

8. No one needs military grade weaponry in suburbia.

Just... no. And if I see someone in Chipotle carrying an AR-15 on their back, I'm walking out and going somewhere else.