Well, that didn't take long! From ABC news...
Obama to seek new assault weapons ban
Wow. With all the other problems in the world, all the other burning fires to put out, this ranks up there enough to whip out in the first 100 days.
"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," (Attorney General Eric) Holder told reporters.
Tactics 101: Don't give any help or comfort to your enemies.
Banning "assault weapons" is going to bring any dissent in the Republican party under control real quick. You know they are going to present a unified front to attack this proposal as soon as it hits the floor for debate. And an angry, motivated and unified Republican party is the last thing Obama needs right now.
This ban should also pull back any moderates who believed Obama's "I won't take your guns" inferences during the campaign.
And add this quote of Holder's to the mix...
"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."
Waitaminute. I thought this was the Unites States Of America. Not UMexico.
So guns are being smuggled to Mexico? And what about all the drugs being smuggled into the United States? Why are we not holding Mexico and their rotten, filth ridden, corrupt government accountable for their complete failures to stop the drugs freely flowing into our country? Why are we not suing the Mexican government for every single child and adult in the United States directly or indirectly killed by the use of drugs? Banning assault weapons in the United States will stop the violence in Mexico.... how?
The cartels, with their dump trucks full of money, will still continue to purchase their SMUGGLED firearms ILLEGALLY even though they may cost more! What is a few thousand more dollars to those that stack money in $207 million dollar piles PER DEALER? Don't believe me? Take a look at the haul from just ONE bust: DEA LINK. BBC LINK. US NEWS LINK. DALLAS NEWS LINK. PHOTO LINK. ARTICLE LINK. ANOTHER ARTICLE LINK. (NOTE: All links are from the same bust. Just different photos and different amounts of detail per article.)
With resources like this, the drug dealers aren't going to give a damn about their firearms being more expensive. The only people this is going to hurt are Americans. Americans who do not have a large bedroom dedicated to $50s and $100s.
Once again, the democrats are actively solving the wrong problem!
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