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BELLEVUE, WA – In what may be an effort to raise his political profile, State Rep. Willis E. Blackshear Jr.—a candidate in the 6th District State Senate race—has come up with a new term to demonize semiautomatic firearms, but it still won’t fool Buckeye State voters, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says.
Blackshear, a Dayton Democrat, now calls modern rifles “mass casualty weapons,” as though the gun, rather than some deranged criminal who might create mayhem, is somehow responsible for a hideous crime. According to a news release from his office, his bill is a response to a tragic 2019 shooting in Dayton’s Oregon district.
“This is just another attempt by a politician running for higher office to make a campaign headline, while using new terminology to alarm or even terrify the public,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “It has been nearly five years since killer Connor Betts was fatally shot by police, bringing an end to his senseless rampage, but instead of pointing to his deranged fantasies about mass shootings, his far left political leanings and his sympathies for Antifa, Blackshear focuses on the firearm the madman used.
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“Let’s see now,” Gottlieb continued. “The gun prohibition movement has tried the terms ‘assault weapons’ and ‘weapons of war,’ and even ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ Now, all of a sudden, Rep. Blackshear has come up with something new to incite the same old anxieties anti-gunners have always had over the fact that Americans like firearms and dislike the efforts to ban them.
“Why did it take Blackshear all this time to introduce his bill,” he wondered. “Could it have anything to do with the fact that he’s in a three-way race for the state Senate position against two other Democrats who also favor restrictive gun laws, and he wants a headline?
“In the final analysis,” Gottlieb concluded, “Blackshear wants to ban a certain class of firearms which are enormously popular and commonly-owned, not just in Ohio but across the country. He can call them whatever provocative name he wants, but it still comes down to a gun ban effort. Perhaps instead of guns, Blackshear should focus on getting rid of criminals. That would be an effort Buckeye State gun owners could get behind.”
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With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
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I see most anti-2nd amendment types as low IQ types who just appeal to other low IQ types who just operate on feelings, it’s just sad that these dummies are voting.
Democrat Blackshear did not realize how vague, even unintelligent, he is by creating this new category.
“Weapon” is defined as “…a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage.”, keywords being “or used”. Almost anything can be used as a weapon, and if used more than once, it becomes a “mass casualty weapon”. Any vehicle can become a mass casualty weapon…or, even a pencil, as proven by John Wick.
I so hope that some blithering idiot, like Adam Schiff, jumps on this term and uses it relentlessly. This new term removes the singularity of “gun” by heaping guns into an endless number of items. Further, perhaps some dimwit on the Left, like Chuck Schumer, will propose a law forbidding the possession of a “mass casualty weapon”. What fun that could be.
Let’s embrace the term. Tell gun banners “Yes, that’s why I bought the firearm in the first place.” “Why?” they will demand. “Because I want as much firepower as possible to stop the unknown threats that my family and I might face”.
no even close, the democrat party is the mass casualty weapon……..how many innocents have died from their policies????
off topic but kleveland won’t enforce celebratory gunfire laws, the premise is that in ohio shooting a gun on private property is legal and now across the state they are pushing to make using a gun on private property illegal…………goodbye home defense and gun ranges!