JoinTogether writes:

The halls of the U.S. Capitol are empty this month as Congress has adjourned for the August recess without extending the Assault Weapons Ban. If President Bush and Congress continue to stall, the ten-year-old Ban will expire on September 13, 2004. Just as our children are returning to their schools, assault weapons will be returning to their streets. While your Members of Congress are at home this month make sure they get the message that you do not want assault weapons in your community!

It’s expiring. Good news indeed. However, the ban has not been shown to have any impact on firearm violence. When you rely on the children as a talking point, you’re really reaching.

Since the ban was passed, overall gun deaths have decreased by nearly twenty-five percent and child and teen deaths from firearms have dropped fifty percent. Sixty-three percent of gun owners favor the ban and an overwhelming majority of registered voters also support it.

And, in that same time period, 16 states adopted shall-issue conceal carry or stopped restricting carrying weapons. Correlation does not equal causation.

In other news, Armalite is offering its customers the opportunity to pre-order post-post-ban rifles. The Brady’s are trying to say that this is illegal. It’s not illegal because Armalite has not manufactured the rifles yet.

To use the hateful rhetoric of the Brady Campaign, this psychotic plans on buying multiple receivers on September 14, 2004.

Posted in uncategorized on August 12th, 2004 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |