On September 13, the 20th anniversary of the signing of the federal assault weapons ban, The New York Times ran a column explaining that the very term "assault weapon" is one the "Democrats created" in the 1990s in order to ban "a politically defined category of guns."
Moreover, the Times points out that the threat posed by the private ownership of "assault weapons" is mythological in comparison to FBI stats on the actual use of such guns in crime.
According to the NYT, America was "suffering from a spike in gun crime...in the early 1990s" so "Democrats created and banned [an entire] category of guns." The ban lasted from 1994 to 2004 and although crime fell during that time, a "detailed study found no proof" the decline was due to the ban.
Hard numbers showed the percentage of "assault weapons" recovered by police during the ban only rose from 1 percent to 2 percent.
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Rapid fire weapons are designated as assault weapons. They are rarely used in murders. Usually common hand guns are used in murders.
Assault weapons are very useful in military combat. The government does NOT want the American public to be capable of fighting against the military. Therefore the assault weapons are banned.
It will be impossible to overthrow this evil government.
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