Assault Weapons - "Mass Produced Mayhem".

[LoginName]

Here we go again.

Looks like the pinheads at the Brady Campaign are getting primed for 2009 and a possible Obama presidency...

Washington, D.C. - In the four years since the federal assault weapons ban expired on September 15, 2004, at least 163 people have been killed and 185 wounded with military-style semiautomatic assault weapons, including at least 38 police officers killed or wounded, according to a report being issued today by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Restrictions on assault weapons, which drew support from Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, have been addressed by both major candidates for President: “Senator Barack Obama has stated as recently as his convention acceptance speech that it is imperative that criminals be denied the use of assault weapons,” the report says. “Senator John McCain, who has opposed the NRA on gun shows and other issues, has been firm in his opposition to an assault weapon ban.”

The report outlines how the availability of assault weapons has altered the balance of power on urban streets between police and criminals, endangering police officers and causing a growing number of police departments to use assault weapons to match the firepower they face . The report also explores the ties between terrorism and assault weapons.

“Our communities are less safe today than they were four years ago, when devastating weapons like AK-47s were not as easily available to thugs and other dangerous people,” said Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center. “We urge policymakers to take action now to get these weapons off the streets.”

The Brady Center report is entitled Mass Produced Mayhem, a phrase used by federal law enforcement officials to describe the guns back in 1994. The report is available online at
http://www.bradycenter.org/xshare/pdf/reports/mass-produced-mayhem.pdf

Over the past four years, the Brady Center has tracked available news coverage of hundreds of incidents to prepare the report. The incidents on the list involved weapons banned under the expired federal act as well as copycat and similar models that would be banned under proposed stronger legislation. The analysis makes a compelling case that federal policymakers should again ban military-style assault weapons.

“This is a very cautious estimate of the injuries and deaths inflicted with assault weapons since the 1994 law expired,” said Brian J. Siebel, the author of the report. “It only includes incidents covered by the news media. The danger that our communities face from these weapons likely is far worse than this report indicates.”

The victim list of those killed with assault weapons since the federal ban expires runs the gamut from grandmothers to young children to decorated police officers:

http://www.bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=1028

 

[mikem317]

Fear-mongering, again.

Taken from the "Executive Report":

Assault weapons are military-style weapons of war, made for offensive military
assaults. It is no accident that when a madman, Gian Luigi Ferri, decided to assault the
law offices at 101 California Street in San Francisco, he armed himself with two TEC-9
assault weapons with 50-round magazines, which enabled him to kill eight people and
wound six others.1 Or that the Columbine high school shooters, who killed 12 students
and a teacher, included a TEC-9 assault pistol in their arsenal.2

The first two cited incidents happened in San Francisco and in a Colorado high school, respectively, two areas where lawful carry by peaceable, sane individuals has been all but totally prohibited?

Take the hint! Let peaceable, sane individuals protect themselves!

 

[terraformer]

WTF!!! You don't make policy by tracking news events and calling that a study. This is not good science. In fact, it is not even science. Very simply the number of gun deaths have gone down. That is based on data. The NRA is asleep at the switch if they can't get some equal time to refute this.

 

[BOBKATT]

163 people have been killed in four years with "assault weapons"? That's not bad at all. Shit, some psychopath took out 32 people in a couple of hours with a little 9mm pistol and a .22lr pistol.

 

[Mikey]

163 people have been killed in four years with "assault weapons"? That's not bad at all. Shit, some psychopath took out 32 people in a couple of hours with a little 9mm pistol and a .22lr pistol.

+1 for you! I wonder how many people have been killed in cars, swimming pools, falling of decks, medical malpractice and so on. But guns are evil.