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White House Floats Gun Control Proposals

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Targetpractice1/06/2013 7:13:06 pm PST

re: #56 McSpiff

You’ve stated its pointless, but you haven’t actually proven the point. Why would trying to address either of those be pointless? Does something need to be common before its worth addressing?

Well actually yes, it would make an easier case for the banning or at least strict enforcement of such weapons if they were a driving force in gun crimes. Like I said about the Thompson, what drove efforts to get them off the streets was that they were a weapon of choice for organized crime of the era. Semiauto rifles are not and trying to paint them as such would make the NRA’s case that this is about demonizing a class of weapons that’s owned without incident by millions of Americans.