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Maryland is going to debate a ban on assault rifles:
My question is: other than killing people, what's the purpose of an assault rifle? There's no animal in Maryland that warrants having such weapons. Anyone who thinks they need an assault rifle to hunt...well, they're not really hunters.
And the whole "well, criminals won't obey the law, so why shouldn't we have assault rifles?" argument? Well, why can't we apply that logic to marijuana use? If people are going to break the law and smoke, than shouldn't we just make that legal too? You could use the same argument for abortions or gay rights or universal health care anything else that a cabal of people have deemed "destructive" for America.
A federal ban on assault weapons went into effect in 1994 but expired 10 years later, Gordon reported.
Now, newly elected Maryland Sen. Mike Lenett is sponsoring a bill to ban assault weapons. The bill designates 45 kinds of firearms that would be banned, with a focus on rifles. Maryland already has a ban on assault pistols.
Lenett, a Montgomery County Democrat, said the weapons under the proposed ban are ill-suited to hunting or target-shooting and that they are "remarkably well-suited to killing a lot of people in a hurry."
My question is: other than killing people, what's the purpose of an assault rifle? There's no animal in Maryland that warrants having such weapons. Anyone who thinks they need an assault rifle to hunt...well, they're not really hunters.
And the whole "well, criminals won't obey the law, so why shouldn't we have assault rifles?" argument? Well, why can't we apply that logic to marijuana use? If people are going to break the law and smoke, than shouldn't we just make that legal too? You could use the same argument for abortions or gay rights or universal health care anything else that a cabal of people have deemed "destructive" for America.
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