re: 70% of Young Americans think we should be allowed to own Assualt Rifles

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Thank G-d those efforts to renew have failed.

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And yet the original 1994 law was fairly toothless. Apparently their nebulosity only created loopholes. If they re-instated the very same law it would have just as little impact as before. The only reason I don't want them to re-instate the ban is simply because it infringes on my liberty if in even a very small, theoretical way.

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But they haven't given up - by any stretch. And despite what Biden says, they want the pistols, revolvers, rifles AND shotguns.

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Which is EXACTLY why we need to be vigilant and look beyond the terminology and focus on the features and functions they are looking to ban - is all I'm saying. Like I said before, they could call shotguns popsicles and I wouldn't care what they call them, but if they tried to BAN popsicles, I would care about what they want to ban.

For now, I embrace 'assault weapons', and I think you should too.

"Save the assault weapon" should be our cry, and frick those guys.

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Don't believe me? Check with the Australian Rifle Association - and that happened, virtually overnight

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wtf? Totally non-sequitur. I am NOT arguing that the government should ban anything, or make us register anything, all I am saying is simply that I refuse to have my attention diverted by nomenclature.

Don't waste your time arguing that there's no such thing as an 'assault weapon'. In the end it doesn't matter what they call it. What matters is if they want to ban it.