Reply #25: Nice moving of the goalposts. [View All]

[Atypical Liberal]

First we were talking about how supposedly Obama/Biden agreed with you on firearms policy, and now we are talking about drug cartels in Mexico?

Stop moving the goalposts in the debate.

And you can forget about another assault weapons ban.

First of all, most voters don't give a shit about Mexico's problems.

Second of all, the way the BATFE has been shown to be allowing firearms to be illegally trafficked to Mexico, they US Government has just blown a shit-load of credibility concerning firearms being trafficked to Mexico from the United States.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20053961-10391695.html

Third of all, most people are smart enough to realize that a multi-billion dollar, multi-national narcotics industry is not going to have any problem obtaining firearms from anywhere in the world, or even manufacturing their own. These people are building submarines in the jungle. Making or acquiring firearms is not going to be a problem for them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco_submarine

Fourth of all, As Bill Clinton said himself, the assault weapon ban was a politically disastrous decision the last time around and cost Democrats some 20 seats in 1994, and quite possibly cost Al Gore the presidential election when he lost his home state of Tennessee.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZGb80RBLHxcC&pg=PA18109&lpg=PA18109&dq=bill+clinton+said+gun+control+cost+seats&source=bl&ots=Yi4iB6Idgp&sig=4b_lIqj2h3IAFqaiTe4ZQ-a3d5E&hl=en&ei=JxezTcayJs-9tgeqm8npDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=bill%20clinton%20said%20gun%20control%20cost%20seats&f=false

Fifth of all, since the scare of the last Assault Weapons Ban, assault weapon sales of skyrocketed. The AR-15 is now the most popular center-fire target rifle in America. Even mainstream manufacturers like Ruger and Remington, who long have avoided military-style arms, now have AR-15 product lines.

And finally, there is the teensy-weensie little fact that according the the FBU's Uniform Crime Reporting database, all rifles, let alone assault rifles, account for fewer homicides annually than do hands and feet. Less than 350 people annually are killed by all rifles in this country, while over 800 are killed by hands and feet.

http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_20.html

There is not going to be an assault weapon ban, and it will be political suicide for anyone who tries it.