Louisiana ban on semi-automatic rifles in committee

[ericire12]

http://www.wwl.com/Proposed-assault-weapons-ban-in-committee/4379336

Proposed assault weapons ban in committee

Dave Cohen Reporting
Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee members are scheduled to consider a statewide ban on assault weapons today.

New Orleans Representative Cedric Richmond sponsors the measure. Similar bills have failed each of the past two years.

This year, Richmond says, his bill is more specific.

"I went in this year and listed 11 weapons that my police chief has talked about as being the most serious threat to public safety," Richmond told the WWL State Capitol Bureau. "I hunt and I fish. I have a rifle and I have a handgun, but I don't need an AK-47. I can't go buy a bazooka, so why should I be able to go buy and AK-47. I think we are just taking it too far."

Richmond says his bill this year contains language to outlaw specific models of semiautomatic weapons that he says are designed only to kill
human beings.

The National Rifle Association's Alexa Fritts says they oppose Richmond's bill. She says the federal assault weapons ban was allowed to expire in 2004 because it basically made no measurable difference.

"There's not a single study... that shows that banning so-called assault weapons has any effect on crime," Fritts said. "Criminals don't pay attention to the laws. By definition, they don't follow the laws. So... a law like this would affect law abiding citizens."

[Hazcat]

Cedric, go back and continue to screw up New Orleans and leave the rest of the state alone!  Your Police Chief was the idiot that illegally confiscated weapons after Katrina and whose department abandoned the city or stayed to HELP the looters!

[ericire12]

Cedric, go back and continue to screw up New Orleans and leave the rest of the state alone!  Your Police Chief was the idiot that illegally confiscated weapons after Katrina and whose department abandoned the city or stayed to HELP the looters!

It is all a waste of time for many reasons......

1. Local municipalities can not make their own gun laws.

2. Jindal will never sign it.

[ericire12]

I can't go buy a bazooka, so why should I be able to go buy and AK-47?

A: In order to maintain a well armed militia....

[r_w]

In my reading of the 2nd you SHOULD be able to buy a bazooka, or SAW or anything else available to law enforcement.

The second was written expressly to prevent the law to be able to outgun civilians. 

[Sponsor]

[twyacht]

Why do I need an "assault weapon?" Answer: You don't. You don't need an "assault weapon" any more than you need the right to speak freely, or the right to vote, or the right to drive whatever car you want, or the right to eat at whatever restaurant you want, or the right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure. If the government says you can only eat at one restaurant, can only drive mopeds, can not vote and can not speak without permission and can not ever speak against the government, and if the government can search your house anytime they want to... you won't die. None of those are NEEDS.
Then, ask how much they like their first amendment or fourth amendment rights? Tell them you like your second, and that the concept of freedom is not based on need- that would be communism. Freedom is based on being able to indulge in individual desires without repercussion. And also tell them that the constitution is a set of pillars upon which our republic is based... take down one pillar and you weaken the whole structure, so much so that other pillars may fall as well... or all of it could fall.
"Q"

"Our Founding Fathers, having endured the tyranny of the British Empire, wanted to guarantee our God-given liberties. They devised our three branches of government and our system of checks and balances. But they were still concerned that the system could fail, and that we might someday face a new tyranny from our own government. They wanted us to be able to defend ourselves, and that's why they gave us the Second Amendment."
Mike Huckabee

[ericire12]

Why do I need an "assault weapon?" Answer: You don't. You don't need an "assault weapon" any more than you need the right to speak freely, or the right to vote, or the right to drive whatever car you want, or the right to eat at whatever restaurant you want, or the right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure. If the government says you can only eat at one restaurant, can only drive mopeds, can not vote and can not speak without permission and can not ever speak against the government, and if the government can search your house anytime they want to... you won't die. None of those are NEEDS.
Then, ask how much they like their first amendment or fourth amendment rights? Tell them you like your second, and that the concept of freedom is not based on need- that would be communism. Freedom is based on being able to indulge in individual desires without repercussion. And also tell them that the constitution is a set of pillars upon which our republic is based... take down one pillar and you weaken the whole structure, so much so that other pillars may fall as well... or all of it could fall.
"Q"

"Our Founding Fathers, having endured the tyranny of the British Empire, wanted to guarantee our God-given liberties. They devised our three branches of government and our system of checks and balances. But they were still concerned that the system could fail, and that we might someday face a new tyranny from our own government. They wanted us to be able to defend ourselves, and that's why they gave us the Second Amendment."
Mike Huckabee

Comment of the day award!

[tt11758]

But they were still concerned that the system could fail, and that we might someday face a new tyranny from our own government. They wanted us to be able to defend ourselves, and that's why they gave us the Second Amendment."

It breaks my heart to think that such a day may not be far off.

[Texas_Bryan]

It breaks my heart to think that such a day may not be far off.

It gets me all tingly.  Maybe its an age thing.

[tombogan03884]

It gets me all tingly.  Maybe its an age thing.

It's called "Crabby old fart syndrome" and it's caused by being aware of, hey , I'm twice your age,