Vaughn Aiken:

Only a couple of years ago, our president justified the invasion of Iraq because he claimed that weapons of mass destruction were an imminent threat to America’s safety and well-being. Well, guns have become weapons of mass destruction here at home, in our own communities. It didn’t help people of color that Congress let the assault weapons ban expire a year ago last month, thus releasing more AK-47s, Uzis and Tec-9s onto our city streets.

First, the ban did not affect AK-47s or Uzis, as those are machine guns and heavily regulated. Intra-Tec, make of the Tec-9, went out of business and those are no longer made. Most crime guns are handguns and crime continues its 30 year spiral down and remains the lowest it has been, even though the ban expired. There are obviously other factors that lead to crime.

At least try to look into the facts.

Posted in uncategorized on October 6th, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |