Dems introduce bill

to ban assault weapons

http://thehill.com/regulation/263489-assault-weapons-ban-targets-semi-automatic-guns

Wonderful.

It's always been about control. Not about terrorism.

I think they are trying to keep guns in the news as well as have ammo (no pun intended) for the election next year..."see, we tried but the evil republicans and the NRA won't let us enact common sense gun laws to keep weapons of war out of the hands of terrorists".

If they want to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists "they" should stop giving terrorists guns.

If they don't want terrorists to attack in America, they should stop letting them in America.

If they're afraid of terrorists sneaking in and attacking, they should close the border.

But it's not about that. Like I said, It's about control.

Hold your breath, while many think it will never happen in a Republican controlled senate, don't be surprised if it's not hidden in the back of a last minute snuck in rider in a must pass bill 2 minutes before the close of Congress after most politicians have already went home.

The republican house can't be trusted either. The budget that was just passed will fund all of Obama's efforts through next September. The republicans didn't fight for squat for us. Boehner out and Ryan in. Meet the new speaker of the house...same as the old speaker of the house. I have no doubt they will pass his pacific trade pact as well as the "global warming" agreement that came out of Paris.

I'm glad that you realized the entire point behind the other topic.

"“Now, let’s remember that assault weapons were first designed for the battlefield by Germans during the Second World War,” said Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), The sole purpose of their existence was to kill as many people as quickly as possible during military combat."

The example used in one of the articles about assault weapons being created in Germany to kill as many people as possible is factually misrepresentative.

The firearm he was referring to was an STG44 which was a *fully automatic* machinegun that fired an intermediate cartridge larger than what we consider to be pistol rounds even though there had been machineguns in use by virtually every country in the world decades prior to Hitlers rise to power and California's "assault weapon" is not the same weapon as the Reps here are claiming, so they're trying to classify as many weapons as possible on misconceptions and "half-truths" in order to confuse and mislead the public at large which doesn't understand or even know they are not the same type of firearms at all.

Germany's Sturmgewehr or "storm rifle" as Adolf Hitler referred to it was nothing like what Rep. Cicilline is referring to.

Germany- "major gun reforms were passed in 1919, 1920, 1928, 1931, and 1938. Second, Hitler wouldn’t even have needed such a measure because of strict licensing laws that had already been passed under the Weimar Republic — ironically, designed to disarm the Nazis and Communists who were shooting each other in the streets, and prevent an armed coup d’état such as Hitler’s 1923 “Beer Hall Putsch.”
http://blog.skepticallibertarian.co...on-gun-registration-conquest-and-disarmament/

Just to go on the record, the Nazi's took advantage of the laws passed prior to them gaining power to keep those that opposed them disarmed by their own laws that they passed themselves, which naturally removed the ability of all their citizens to protect themselves and made Auschwitz and other death camps and mass genocide not only a possibity, but stark reality. You would be foolish to believe that the Nazi's didn't systematically kill anyone that opposed them whether they had German lineage or not.

On a related note, the U.S.A. has also banned guns from people before. But you will be hard pressed to read about it in history books, but native americans were told to lay down their arms, and they would be taken care of. And thus, the Ghost Dance was outlawed because it "scared" people, and an entire indigenous civilization was nearly wiped off the face of the earth.

Here's a little more about that to anyone who wants to believe that "it won't happen here". Newsflash, it already has and will again if we allow it.

I will not.