{"id":25934,"date":"2014-10-10T15:52:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T19:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=25934"},"modified":"2014-10-10T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T03:02:56","slug":"assault-weapons-designed-kill-lot-people-says-political-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/assault-weapons-designed-kill-lot-people-says-political-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Assault weapons are designed to kill a lot of people\u2026’ says political ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Assault weapons are designed for one purpose,” says a new political ad paid for by supporters of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, “to kill a lot of people in a short amount of time.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, well, suppose we buy that premise for a moment. In the hands of a good guy, that would mean an “assault weapon” is designed to kill a lot of BAD people in a short amount of time.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a problem with that, especially since (a) there are more law-abiding gun owners than there are criminals and (b) a CDC study<\/a>\u00a0said\u00a0that guns are used more frequently to thwart crime then they are are to perpetrate it.<\/p>\n

I never tell people how to vote, but If I lived in Illinois, I’d seriously consider voting for Republican candidate Bruce Rauner simply because he wants to remove the ban on these commonly owned and widely popular firearms.<\/p>\n

On a side note, one can also point out that whether they be bolt action or semi-automatic, are used in less than 3 percent of all gun-related homicides. Clearly, modern sporting rifles are not the scourge on society anti-gunners claim them to be (that’s not to say that other firearms are a scourge on society, but just to say that their reputation as implements of death is greatly\u00a0overblown).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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