In less than a week after the horrible terrorist attack by the white supremacist, New Zealand banned assault weapons. In contrast, Americans have tolerated years of mass shootings, even of little children, without doing so. Senator Bernie Sanders says that has to change:
I agree. It is long past time to do this.
NRA mass shooting enabler, Dana Loesch, responded that the Constitution is a suicide pact in which the blood of children must be sacrificed to fulfill the desires of gun fetishists. Well, not in those words, but that is the effect of NRA action:
Fuck the NRA and their Russian paymasters.
I think most, if not all, Democratic candidates for President are agreed on banning assault weapons.
In fact, it was done before.
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), officially the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, was a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law, which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ammunition magazines that were defined as "large capacity".
The 10-year ban was passed by the US Congress on September 13, 1994, following a close 52–48 vote in the US Senate, and was signed into law by US President Bill Clinton on the same day. The ban applied only to weapons manufactured after the date of the ban's enactment. It expired on September 13, 2004, in accordance with its sunset provision.
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Bernie Sanders voted to pass that bill in 1994. He was the House member from Vermont. Votes on H.R. 4296 (103rd): Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act. Most Democrats and those who caucused with Democrats (Bernie) voted for the bill. Bill Clinton signed it. A Republican Congress, however, refused to renew it a decade later.
It’s time to pass a similar or better bill.