U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Gun Rights Group's Challenge to State Assault Weapon Ban

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47. And asserting that making half a dozen pistol mags should be punished more than murder is rational?

From the NRA, obviously, along with its many surrogates in rightwing media and on DU who like to pump the "Obama wants to take yer gunz" propaganda.

Oh, we don't need to listen to the NRA. Will you take the word of the Vice President on this matter?

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/response-your-petition-banning-ar-15-civilian-ownership-0v

To the creator and signers of this petition, I want to say this as plainly and clearly as possible: The President and I agree with you. Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines should be banned from civilian ownership.

He just said that he and the President think that the guns that I currently own should be made illegal for me to own.

How can that possibly be interpreted any way but that he wants the government to take them away from me?

So, what's your solution to the daily mass shootings? 15M additional guns per year sure as hell aren't stopping them.

Nothing is going to stop them. Ever.

But it is an undeniable fact that the murder rate is only half what it was a quarter century ago. This while the number of guns doubled (at least) in that period of time.

I'm not particularly worried about your proposal to put gun owners in jail for life, or any of the other equally absurd predictions about the future of gun control. Oh, there might be some modest restrictions in the future, similar to the useless AWB of 1994....but no one's taking my AR-15 away.

The wishes of some here to the contrary.