Out My Window

Here is the thing:
Recent murders in Washington state prompted a bill that would ban assault weapons. The primmest was that if gangsters are shooting people with automatic assault weapons we should just outlaw them. Sounds good in theory, right? Who needs a fully automatic, 30 rounds per second deer rifle?
Assault weapons were banned, if you remember, in 1994 and lasted until 2004. Even the ATF stated that there was no decrease in crime due to the ban and the ban was overturned with a 8-90 vote.

In reality, there is already regulation on these weapons. They are required to be registered and you must have a permit to own one. At the time I was collecting guns, the cost was $250 per weapon.
Thus, these weapons used in crime are more than likely owned by people that didn't acquire them legally. Making it against the law for them to have them anyway. If there was a state ban on these weapons, I am sure the bad guys would be a little leery of shooting someone with a banned weapon.
Once the law went in to effect, that would make outlaws of citizens that now legally own them. The government would have to look up every permit and go to the homes and collect the weapons.

The bad guys would immediately rush out and destroy their weapons for fear of being caught with a banned weapon they were using to shoot people. There would be a run on concealed weapons permits as the bad guys rushed to have their murder weapons registered. The government would be over whelmed with paperwork and would have to increase the workforce to handle it, and increase the taxes to pay for it.
Humm, bad guys would then have to step up their burglaries to pay the increased taxes then, huh?

Point is, if you are going to shoot good guys, you're not going to care if the gun is legal or not. If no one had guns, there would be a big push to outlaw sticks and rocks!

Who elects these idiots?
Politicians that support these extreme gun laws have no understanding of how a gun works nor have they ever, buy the pure nature of their social environment, been exposed to gun collecting or use.
Carolyn McCarthy of New York (D), sponsored a bill in 2007 that would re-institute and expand the ban on assault weapons. In an interview she did not know what a barrel shroud was, McCarthy incorrectly stated, "I believe it is a shoulder thing that goes up". Her standing was that high capacity clips being banned would reduce shootings like Virginia State. ??? The shooter there had legal low capacity clips.
People without drivers license should never make traffic laws. It makes them look dumb.

I normally encourage my readers to research the topics and form their own opinions but in this case I have seen the statistics manipulated to serve witness to both extremes. It is hard to believe any of it.
Two things remains constant: I was born into a country that guaranteed my right to protect myself, family, and property from any enemy, including the government, by bearing arms. If people don't like these rights, they really need to pick the country they want to live in.
And; laws that ban guns do not effect criminals. They, by definition, will not respect the law.