Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Senator Defends Assault Weapons, Claims Criminals Don't Use Them To Kill People


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/04/10/1844941/senator-defends-assault-weapons-claims-criminals-dont-use-them-to-kill-people/Article Photo

correct they use them to kill many Americans sometimes in less than 5 mins.
A day before the senate begins debate on a comprehensive package of gun safety measures, Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) told a local radio station on Wednesday that the provisions being proposed would have done nothing to prevent the tragedy at Newtown, Connecticut since criminals don’t use assault-style weapons “to commit crimes.”
Appearing on “The Alice Stewart Show,” which airs on KHTE 96.5 The Voice, Boozman condemned the Congressional push to regulate firearms and predicted that it would fail:
BOOZMAN: Nothing that’s being proposed would have any effect on that at all. When you look at the studies, 90 percent of violent crime is hand guns, 5 percent is rifles, less than 1 percent is assault-style weapons and again these are not the automatic weapons that soldiers carry. But they’re big, bulky, people don’t use them to commit crimes and so as a result it still doesn’t do anything.
kids and adults dying daily by guns, and still the beat goes on the NRA and the bribed ones are still fighting against laws to control.
up to 80% of nra are for background checks until the right wing and LaPierre told them they didn't.
where are those who do not oppose, why are they not visible or making some noise does a NRA membership card mean more then human lives to them?
Assault weapons may not be the weapon of choice for most gun criminals in the United States, but they are far more deadly, as the mass killing in Newtown, Connecticut demonstrated. A recent study of mass shootings since January 2009 from Mayors Against Illegal Violence found that while “just 12 of the mass-shooting incidents, or 28 percent, involved assault weapons or high-capacity magazines,” those incidents resulted in “an average of 8.3 deaths, compared with 5.4 deaths on average for the rest.” 
not enough for the NRA and the guys to give it up LaPierre gets rich and the enthusiast get more guns and we get more dead more graves, more orphans, more parents childless, but the lobby and the gun sales are up!