Government
Jul. 27, 2012
Banning assault weapons in the US
Congress needs to pass legislation urgently that permanently bans the sale of assault weapons. By Jeffrey A. Lowe
"Recent events illustrate again, and with chilling vividness, the tragedy that results from the wide and easy availability of guns with fire power that overwhelm our police, of weapons that have no place in hunting or sport, and whose only real function is to kill human beings at a ferocious pace."
Ironically, this statement was not recently with respect to the tragedy in Colorado, but was made in 1993 by then Sen. Joseph Bi...
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