Franken Backs Assault Weapon Ban

[jpak]

http://www.keyc.tv/story/20877687/franken-to-back-assault-weapon-ban


Senator Al Franken has lined up in support of a proposed assault weapons ban.

Like many on Capitol Hill, it was the mass murder of 26 people, including 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut that has led Senator Al Franken to get behind, and even offer amendments to a massive assault weapons ban being discussed in Congress.

"I believe in the 2nd Amendment. I believe people have the fundamental right to own a gun for hunting, for collection, for protection, for sport. I don't believe that the assault weapons are needed, we've seen so many of these tragedies."

The proposed bill also includes a ban on any magazine hold over ten rounds, and Franken is focusing on mental health treatment in amendments of his own.

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[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

1. I've never thought that guy was...

...on the level.

[Common Sense Party]

4. "The Decade of Me...Al Franken" n/t

[spin]

2. Not surprising. However some Democratic Senators do not support the AWB. ...

Another Democratic Senator Comes Out Against Assault Weapons Ban
DOUG MATACONIS · THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013

The prospects of an assault weapons ban actually making it through Congress appear to be growing dimmer by the day. During yesterday’s hearings on gun control, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy made it clear that he was not at all inclined to support such a ban, which means it may have a rough time in committee. Even if it got out of committee, though, several Red State Democrats have made their opposition clear, the latest being Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor:

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It’s not at all surprising to see Pryor hedging his bets here. He’s running for re-election in 2014 in a state that Mitt Romney won easily, and which has only gone Republican twice since 1980, and those were times when a popular former Arkansas Governor was at the top of the Democratic ticket. Additionally, Pryor has always had a strong record i support of the 2nd Amendment so it’s not really surprising that he would take this position. Although it’s worth noting that Pryor did vote in favor of renewing the 1994 ban when it came up in 2004. Although he wasn’t running for re-election that year.
Pryor isn’t the first Red State Democrat to take this position, and he won’t be the last. What this suggests is that an assault weapons ban may not even make it through the Senate, never mind the House of Representatives.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/another-democratic-senator-comes-out-against-assault-weapons-ban/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OTB+(Outside+The+Beltway+%7C+OTB)

[Common Sense Party]

3. I never saw that one coming.

jpak, do you agree with Sen. Franken that people "have the fundamental right to own a gun...for protection"?