Quoted: Just a few weeks ago, young San Francisco police Officer Isaac Espinoza was shot to death by a killer with an AK-47 rifle.
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And this supposed to convince me that the "assault weapon" ban is working and should be made permanent ........ so that this sort of thing won't happen anymore??????
Will this legislation alone prevent such weapons from ever coming into the hands of someone who would use them to terrorize, intimidate or kill? Sadly, it will not. If it could have done such a thing, Espinoza might still be alive today.
But would the absence of this legislation, and the easier access to powerful assault weapons that would bring, make things worse? It most certainly would.
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Bzzzt! WRONG!!!DOJ - Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously KilledSix years prior to "Assault Weapon Ban":Year....Total LEOs Killed...By Handguns...By Other Guns...By Other Methods
1988........78.................63............13..............2
1989........66.................40............17..............9
1990........66.................48.............9..............9
1991........71.................50............18..............3
1992........64.................44............11..............9
1993........70.................50............17..............3
TOTALS.....415................295............
85.............35
Six years after "Assault Weapon Ban":Year....Total LEOs Killed...By Handguns...By Other Guns...By Other Methods
1995........74.................43............19.............12
1996........61.................50.............7..............4
1997........70.................49............18..............3
1998........61.................40............18..............3
1999........42.................25............16..............1
2000........51.................33............14..............4
TOTALS.....355................240............
92.............26
CHANGE...(-14%).............(-19%).........(
+8%).........(-26%)
*** The number of police killed by non-handgun firearms (including "assault weapons") has NOT DECREASED since the passing of the "assault weapon" ban in 1994 but has in fact INCREASED since the passage of the AWB.And this comes despite the decrease in the number of LEOs killed by all other means INCLUDING handguns.
And here's the most definitive "Final Word" on the non-effectiveness of the AWB:
So rarely that no useful data can be collected as to whether the AWB is even saving ONE single police officer's life at all.
the legislation affects a very limited number of weapons. Most are useless for hunting and too dangerous for home defense, and some are not even accurate enough to make for good target shooting.
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Oh - okay.
So is THAT why AR15-style rifles win so many National Service Rifle Championships year after year???
And is THAT why so many police departments all over the nation are now equipped with AR15s???
Because they're soooooo inaccurate???
Oh and by the way, the rates of gun-crimes committed with "assault weapons" are completely irrelevant to the issue of this "assault weapon" ban because
our rights are not derived from nor predicated upon the most recent crime statistics! Fucking imbeciles.