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We need a ban on Semi-auto high-magazine capacity Rifles and Pistols

Efforts to create restrictions on assault weapons at the federal government level intensified in 1989 after 34 children and a teacher were shot and five children killed in Stockton, California with a semi-automatic Kalashnikov pattern rifle. The Luby's shooting in October 1991, which left 23 people dead and 27 wounded, was another factor. The July 1993 101 California Street shooting also contributed to passage of the ban. The shooter killed eight people and wounded six. Two of the three firearms he used were TEC-9 semi-automatic handguns . The ban tried to address public concerns about mass shootings by restricting firearms that met the criteria for what it defined as a "semiautomatic assault weapon," as well as magazines that met the criteria for what it defined as a "large capacity ammunition feeding device."

In November 1993, the proposed legislation passed the U.S. Senate. The bill's author, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and other advocates said that it was a weakened version of the original proposal. In May 1994, former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of banning "semi-automatic assault guns." They cited a 1993 CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll that found 77 percent of Americans supported a ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of such weapons.
They cited a 1993 CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll that found 77 percent of Americans supported a ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of such weapons.

Referencing a poll that is almost 30 years old? 😂😂😂

Interesting fact - immediately after Sandy Hook, the hopolophobes predictably ran out and conducted gun control polls while emotions were still high (kind of like what's happening with this post).

The pollsters asked if more gun control was needed. 51% responded yes. And of course, gun grabbers beat their chests in victory as they always claim to be the majority.

But here's the rub...the question pollsters don't want you to know about. "Would more gun control have stopped this shooting?" 81% responded no.

Lesson learned. Emotionally, people claim they want more gun control because they feel awful about what happened. But when people set their emotions aside and think critically, they realize gun control won't solve the problem.
xp47rb · M
Another stupid gun control fanatic. Leave the US if you can't handle the second amendment rights.
No we don't. Laws don't stop criminals. Otherwise , you know people wouldn't be murdered. Because well shooting and killing people is already illegal.
AbbySvenz · F
And yet in every recent case, the weapons used were bought legally 🤔 @Callmewhatyouwill
@AbbySvenz and? Last one was a pissed off Syrian refugee who was on several fbi watch lists.... But sure things were done by the book.

Any chance you can tell me which law actually stopped a criminal?
You gonna ban rocks, too??? 🤔
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@HootyTheNightOwl
Sane Americans (the majority) are sick of the murderous shooting gallery the U.S. has become. We are going to make our Congress enact sane gun control laws.
@badminton Guns are illegal here... yet people still shoot people...
@badminton
Just AR-15s and AKs and similar weapons. No civilian has any business owning such military-grade weapons.

I've asked you this before. If these are military grade, then name one military...any military...that has issued an AR-15 or AK-47 to its troops. And let's clarify that the AK-47 you're talking about here doesn't have full auto capabilities.

Go ahead. Name one. We'll wait.
MethDozer · M
What do you consider high capacity?
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@MethDozer Over 10 rounds magazine capacity.
MethDozer · M
@badminton That's what we have here in NY with exceptions for tube fed rimfires. I'm more or less fine with it.

 
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