Another shooting with the usual conflicting jumble of ever-changing details, another screech to scrap the Constitution. From a former political cop who clearly never took his oath seriously.
CNN Guest Calls For Mass Gun Confiscation After Nashville School Shooting
“We had an assault weapons ban here for a number of years, it worked, and you know, when you look at what happened in New Zealand and how quickly that government responded to an incident, it’s just unconscionable that we can’t do something similar.”
Let’s break that down:
“We had an assault weapons ban…”
No, we had a ban on imports and sales of new firearms Not a single existing firearm was banned.
“it worked”
No, it didn’t.
premature to make definitive assessments of the ban’s impact on gun crime,” largely because the law’s grandfathering of millions of pre-ban assault weapons and large-capacity magazines “ensured that the effects of the law would occur only gradually” and were “still unfolding” when the ban expired in 2004.
“when you look at what happened in New Zealand and how quickly that government responded to an incident, it’s just unconscionable that we can’t do something similar.”
It would unconscionable to try violating the Second Amendment on that scale, especially in light of BRUEN.
And New Zealand’s adventure in tyranny? It didn’t work either.
If you compare the past 12 months to a decade earlier, there was a 53 percent increase in gun crime, and a 327 percent inrease in injuries caused by guns.
Funny; I don’t see Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis volunteering to lead the stack.
“The sheer immorality of victim disarmament aside, one would hope every law enforcement officer out there would stop to consider all the possible ramifications of kicking in several million doors because the occupants are well armed.”
— Moi, back in the ’90s
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