Petition to restore the Assault Weapons Ban

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by David Safier

Dino Kadich has started a petition on whitehouse.gov's "We the People" section:

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
restore the Assault Weapons Ban immediately.

Dino asked me to mention it on the blog, which I am happy to do. He's a high school student — he'll be a junior when school starts — attending Canyon del Oro High. He's one of the more politically engaged high school students I've met recently, putting his energy into local Democratic campaigns as well as efforts like this petition.

To sign the petition, you have to create a whitehouse.gov account if you don't already have one. It just takes a few steps. Not a bad idea to have one.

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5 thoughts on “Petition to restore the Assault Weapons Ban”

  1. Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!!! I was complaining bitterly to friends about the lack of “proper mental healthcare and the abilito identify and treat folks like these” and here you are. Now, I’d like to see this issue take up as much space in the media as discussions of banning assault weapons!!!!! People as sick as this gunner must have left a stream of clues before he committed the ghastly crime!!! Loughner did and Pima College dropped the ball – how different many lives would have been if there had been proper attention to Loughner’s mental state!!!

  2. Why is it that I or anybody else should listen especially closely to Jason Alexander’s reasoning? He doesn’t even reason very well. According to the second definition of militia he pulls from a Merriam-Webster dictionary “2. The whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service” I do believe this includes all lawful US male residents and citizens between the age of 18 and 42. Mr. Alexander’s article is no better and no worse than many an article by a latter day advocate of gun control. He adds nothing unique or particularly insightful in his generic call for more government regulation and more government restrictions.

  4. If someone wishes to make a petition that is all fine with me. In political reality which of the current 10 federal elected officials (from Arizona) is willing to introduce or cosponsor such a bill? Are there any candidates for federal office (in Arizona) who are willing to support such a piece of legislation if elected? I would love to know the answer to any of these questions.

    And as far as Chris’ comment above it is my belief that the gun industry is already protecting We The People by enabling the vast majority of Americans to be able to buy pistols and protect themselves against criminals in 99% of the dangerous situations that occur out there.

  5. Hello…… Sadly, the Assault Weapons Ban would not have stopped him from being able to buy the weapons he used from a gun store. The law was pretty weak basically.

    The weapons ban made some types of modifications/features of ‘some’ assault weapons illegal – which banned those weapons because of features – and not the gun itself. It didn’t ban or stop the sale of auto weapons, semi-auto, or most high powered weapons – as long as they didn’t have the features. The ar15 had replacements, the ak47, etc all had replacement weapons, equally as powerful, just without the banned features.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15

    Even a complete gun ban wouldn’t have stopped a man that knew how to make booby traps. IED’s are far more dangerous than guns, as our troops have found this out the hard way.

    Also, check out youtube for handguns using 15 round clips, hitting every target, in under 5 seconds. Point being, even a 9mm in the hands of a killer is as dangerous as any high powered riffle.

    What we need in this country is proper mental healthcare and the ability to identify and treat folks like this before these type of events take place. And an NRA that is willing to help/protect the people rather than creating profits for the gun industry from its fear based propaganda.

    ~Chris – U.S. Marine

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