AZ Woman Has 80K Assault-Weapon Ban Supporters; Critic: It Won't Happen
August 10, 2012 10:28:10 am
Ellen Davis, a Phoenix-area lawyer and mother, has more than 80,000 signatures on an Internet petition to reinstate the 1994 federal ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004, says the Arizona Republic. She was shocked at reports that James Holmes used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with a 100-round drum magazine in a Colorado theater last month. "I'm tired of being silent. Too many have died," Davis said.
A Gallup poll last year found 43 percent of Americans in favor of the assault-weapons ban and 53 percent opposed. Daniel Vice of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence said Davis' petition is part of a building movement that is similar to the outcry that led to the ban during the Clinton administration. A sign that this isn't a quick-fading national mood is the gun-control questions being asked of both presidential campaigns, he said. Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, described the 1994 ban as a "feel-good nothing" law that was based on a gun's appearance instead of actual criteria such as caliber. Constitutional issues aside, a stricter ban would be impractical, Gottlieb said. The AR-15 and the handgun used in the Tucson-area shooting are popular, he said. Plus, Congress is more pro-gun now than in the 1990s, he said. "It's just not going to happen," Gottlieb said.
Posted by troy
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 07:13
Hi if you don’t like the laws in Arizona feel free to move your sorry ass back to California where you can be liberal morons in the presence of other liberal morons. buybye now
Posted by Russ
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 05:44
Don’t forget, Donald: The theater shooting happened in a place where guns were banned, and the media reported a “tactical vest” as body armor. It’s just POCKETS, people!
Posted by Donald L. Cline
Monday, August 13, 2012 10:35
I’m amazed at how many people seemed to be totally ignorant of why the Assault Weapon Ban was allowed to sunset: Here’s a newsflash, people: It was allowed to sunset because it didn’t work. The violent crime rate went through the roof. I haven’t room here to discuss the issue in full, but I recommend reading “Armed and Female” by Paxton Quigley: She was on the Kennedy staff and worked hard to get the Assault Weapon Ban passed, only to be horrified by the results. She did honest research and would end up becoming a combat firearms instructor. Remember, one armed citizen could have stopped the Aurora theater shooter armor or no armor — and an AR-15 would have stopped him with one round. People who advocate gun control are people who haven’t learned to think — or who are trying to sucker the ignorant into another genocide, like the nine genocides in this century, every one preceded by gun control like Ellen Davis wants.