Kerry co-sponsored S-1431 (“The Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003”), yet here he is playing to a West Virginia audience on Labor Day with one of the the very guns he tried to ban! That is a Remington Model 11-87 that is favored by many hunters and outdoorsmen.
The Second Amendment needs to be preserved, not played around with by politicians like this!
I think it would be better if they tried to classify PEOPLE as “semi-automatic assault weapons” since people can kill people with ANYTHING they can find. A firearm is but a tool for the hand that wields it. People (gun control advocates especially) need to remember that always.
People have been killing people for many thousands of years before guns came on the scene. To insist on a total ban would take guns out of the hands of people who accept and exercise the responsibility of being a firearm owner and leave guns in the hands of criminals who have no such sense of responsibility and are the ones who are in the news today for staging disasters like the Columbine slaughter.
Who would gun-ban advocates have protecting the innocent from criminals? The police? We are already cutting police services across the country. Who does that leave? Unarmed Johnny and Jane? I think not.
Kerry needs to explain his position more clearly and stand by his record, not play to different groups of people.
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