A Weapon Surrendered

[Narf]

Gun-control groups concede the frivolity of the “assault-weapons ban.”

"The so-called 'assault-weapons ban,' a hallmark of the gun-control movement, is dead. After a decade of claiming that the ban is crucial to reducing crime and protecting police, gun-control organizations have suddenly morphed into Gilda Radner's old Saturday Night Live character, Roseanne Rosanna-Dana, saying 'never mind.'

An example? Take the statements made recently on National Public Radio by a representative of the Violence Policy Center. NPR described the VPC as 'one of the more aggressive gun groups in Washington.' Yet the VPC's representative claimed: 'If the existing assault-weapons ban expires, I personally do not believe it will make one whit of difference one way or another in terms of our objective, which is reducing death and injury and getting a particularly lethal class of firearms off the streets. So if it doesn't pass, it doesn't pass.'
The NPR reporter noted: ' says that's all the brought about, minor changes in appearance that didn't alter the function of these weapons.'

These are 'aggressive' gun controllers? These are points one expects to hear them from the NRA. True, there is not a single academic study showing that either the state or federal bans have reduced violent crime. Even research funded by the Justice Department under the Clinton administration concluded merely that the ban's 'impact on gun violence has been uncertain.'"

Full article here.

[Wickerman]

1. bad link

locking in 10, 9, 8, ....

[slackmaster]

2. Bad link to a GOOD PLACE

At least it's not something embarrassing like a bestiality porn site or the RNC's Web page.

:evilgrin:

[Wickerman]

3. redundant

bestiality porn site or the RNC's Web page.

more :evilgrin:

[Narf]

4. Ooops, pilot error. The link is now functional.

[Wickerman]

5. Slack was right

the original link was better.

thanks anyway.

[iverglas]

7. uh, yeah

Link to the National Review.

Bad link.

Seriously. Is/was there not some rule about links to patently right-wing sources and how they're to be dealt with?

They're getting awful common hereabouts.

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[MrBenchley]

8. So to sum up....

We got the RKBA crowd posting crap from the scummiest of right wing websites, from writers that the bottomfeeding scum at freerepublic and lucianne.com think are aces...

And we got the RKBA crowd cheering lustily for bills sponsored by Republican humholes...

Aren't you convinced now that this is a bipartisan issue? Me neither.

[Wickerman]

9. Regrettably, the RW link thing

is deemed unfair to the pioneering Dems that support RKBAs here in the Gungeon. Not too many Dems writing on the issue.

You may recall a thread some months back where we discussed the banning of all the RW bullshit and we came to that conclusion. In that thread I also made a plea for the well-written and articulate here to write articles for publication in reputable sources so we would have something to link to.

I know at least one of our folks gets published on occasion in a southern newspaper - I don't think those are on-line.

[MrBenchley]

6. Mary Rosh at the National Reivew