Obama Wants A New Assault Weapons Ban
Because gun ownership isn’t a right, I guess.
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.
“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder told reporters.
Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.
Right. Because all those Mexican drug smugglers would hear Obama’s decree and stop their illegal activities immediately. Because we all know how much respect criminals have for the law.
The problem with the assault weapons ban, aside from being an unconstitutional government regulation of a right, is that the only people who abide by it are law-abiding, non-criminal gun owners. Criminals who actually use guns to commit crimes are going to ignore it, and it won’t have an impact on crime at all, because the idea that we can stop crime by trying to ban guns is absurd.
Criminals commit crimes. Not guns.
