September 14, 2014
Second Amendment
“(TPNN) – Twenty years ago, amidst incredibly-high approval ratings for gun control measures, Congress passed a ban on so-called “assault weapons.” They mainly categorized the weapons that would be prohibited based on cosmetic features and magazine capacities; however, the ban was clear enough: no more scary-looking guns would be manufactured.
However, despite the lack in judgment by legislators in the mid-‘90’s, they did remember to offer a sunset clause that would expire the ban after ten years unless renewed.
In short, for decades, Americans had to suffer through counterfactual arguments from Second Amendment opponents who claimed that if we would simply try it “their way,” we would witness a drastic reduction in gun violence.
It didn’t work. After ten years of Americans having their Second Amendment rights restricted based on the cosmetic appearances of “scary-looking” firearms, everyone was forced to admit in 2004 that the ban just simply didn’t work.
The silver lining? After having tried it “their way” for ten years, we have amassed a large amount of data that can show us the lunacy of such bans.
Even liberal think tanks are throwing in the towel on this issue. From the Center for American Progress’ report “Assault Weapons Revisited”:
While the question of what to do about the proliferation of certain military-style rifles—so-called “assault weapons”—remains open, advocates for stronger gun laws have recently focused on the question of who may possess guns, rather than which type of guns should receive heightened regulation. In the wake of the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, President Barack Obama, congressional leaders, and gun-violence prevention advocates alike made deterring dangerous people from accessing guns the top legislative priority with a proposal for comprehensive background checks for all gun sales. In April 2013, while the Senate also considered a new assault weapons ban that only mustered 40 votes, the Manchin-Toomey bill to expand background checks garnered 55 votes…
This report considers how gun laws have evolved to address different classes of firearms and looks more broadly at how federal and state laws treat rifles and shotguns differently than handguns and whether all of those distinctions continue to make sense. It also examines data on the changing nature of gun violence and the increasing use of long guns and assault rifles by criminals, with a focus on Pennsylvania as a case study.
The study did not bluntly note that “assault weapons” bans cannot work; it does, however, explain that for anti-Second Amendment advocates, that’s not the route to go.
Since even the DOJ has admitted that the ban simply did not work to deter crime, the next wave of anti-gun crusades, according to the Center for American Progress, should be geared towards redefining who should be allowed to have firearms, not what kind of firearms should be prohibited.”
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