VPC continues to dance in the blood of dead people
“Armed hunters were no match for one person firing an SKS assault rifle,” said Kristen Rand, VPC legislative director. “This sad incident illustrates why the SKS is also a leading cop-killing rifle in America today.”
Actually, there was one armed hunter who was probably shot first. And it likely wasn’t an SKS but another rifle also not covered by the assault weapons ban.
Rand pointed out that the SKS assault rifle was not covered by the recently expired 1994 federal assault weapons ban. The VPC criticized the 1994 law as inadequate and favors enactment of a tougher version of the law that would ban the SKS and many other assault weapons that easily slipped through the old law’s loopholes.
The old law’s loopholes being, of course, that not everything was an assault weapon. As David Workman says:
Wisconsin case about murder, not political football
Though I’ve never commented on the VPC’s trailer before, here it is:
The Violence Policy Center is a national non-profit educational foundation that conducts research on violence in America and works to develop violence-reduction policies and proposals. The Center examines the role of firearms in America, conducts research on firearms violence, and explores new ways to decrease firearm-related death and injury.
Actually, the VPC conducts no real research. They tend to make it up.
December 6th, 2004 at 11:51 am
I really hope this does not turn into an issue of gun control because that’s not what it is about. It’s about cold blooded murder regardless of what kind of gun was used.