There it is again. "BUT" well I believe this BUT then again, I don't.
Wouldn't he be surprised to know that "assault" weapons were exactly what the founders had in mind.
Enough of this crap!!!
WARNING, I AM ON MY SOAPBOX !!!Websters Ninth New Collegiante Dictionaryas-sault
n 1: a violent physical or verbal attack 2a: an apparently violent attemp or a willful offer with force or violence to do hurt to another without the actual doing of the hurt threatened (as by lifting the fist in a threatening manner) b: rape
assault
vt 1: to make an assault on
Assault is an action! Assault is not a thing!
My health has been harmed by McDonalds Assault-Big Macs, Burger King Assault-Whoppers, Jack-in-the-Box Assault-Super Sized Meals, ... Sound stupid? No more stupid that putting the word "assault" infront of a gun, knife, stick or any other item you are afraid of.
All these gun haters need to go for counseling to get over their fear of inatimate objects. How do we get them to understand that it is not the knife, club or gun that they are afraid of? How do we get them to understand that it is the person they need to fear? Take away this gun or that, and there will just be another tool to ban. Slowly work your way through every gun ever built, and you will find yourself going after swords, knives, clubs, chains, diesel fuel, fertilizer, gasoline, laundry detergent, strike anywhere matches ...
The real problem is the action and not the tool. We have thousands of laws regulating the action, but no one wants to deal with enforcing those ... unless of course we can determine that the threat was to some protected special race, sex or sect - then you will not only go to jail until you are dead but until you are dead two or three times.
Oh, by the way, To our Founding Fathers the most threatening weapon used in warfare was a rifled musket with a three and a half foot barrel, and I don't recall any where in the early records that it is written that only the Governement or a select few with special certificates can own those. Remeber all that if you not only read the Second Amendment, but also the writings that the Framers coresponded with you will find that they wanted us to have all the weapons of war at our immediate disposal as legal citizens.