The assault weapons ban: What now?
Did the Assault-Weapons Ban Kill Gun Control? Probably. You cannot ban the most popular selling rifle in the country and not expect significant backlash.
Indeed, shame on you. Trotting out dead children and dancing in their blood to try to pass a law that would not have prevented their deaths.
It doesn’t have the votes and will not be on the senate’s gun control bill. Obama is still pushing it though. Seems the AWB is also a lose/lose scenario for vulnerable senators, which is further evidence that the bill won’t see the light of day.
So, what does that leave? I think we’ll see a push for the universal background check law and the accompanying registration, which was likely the goal anyway. Gun controllers are throwing everything out there to see what sticks. I give this bill roughly a 50/50 shot of passing. The reason is that it has overwhelming popular support, likely from people who aren’t really knowledgeable of the subject. Safe to say a vote for that will not cost someone votes from non-gun people.
So, what to do? Possibly attach the AWB to the registration bill as a poison pill. But, then, what if it passes?
March 24th, 2013 at 2:58 pm
Well, my first inclination would be to say, “Well, then things get interesting in the Chinese sense of the word.”
But, then I look at what happened in 1934, 1968, 1986, and 1994. So the answer to “what if it passes” is “nothing will happen.”
March 24th, 2013 at 7:02 pm
NO, I don’t want it attached to anything. Nothing is worth the risk of it passing. We need to hammer them so they see all gun votes as a risk but we can not risk this passing in any way shape or form.
Then next year we go back to passing laws that repeal this crap
March 24th, 2013 at 7:58 pm
My fears are that the AWB/Magazine Limits will be attached to a piece of “must-pass” legislated aided and abetted by a very conveniently-timed incident. (Of course, the incident would have in no way been prevented by any of the proposed legislation.)
March 25th, 2013 at 6:16 am
I don’t think background checks and registration was their goal. I think the goal was to throw everything at us and pass what they could.
March 25th, 2013 at 9:43 am
Odumbo’s government has little interest in enforcing laws it doesn’t like so I see no reason to pay attention to any I don’t like. Sh!+head-in-chief has destroyed all respect for Federal law. They won’t obey them so why should I?