Assault weapons

[Mark B]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

I think if you looked you could find the percentage of all murders that are committed with "assault weapons". Not many. Now you will say one life is too many. Certainly true.
My point is the fixation on them when the vast majority of senseless murders are in inner cities and certainly not with "assault weapons".
The victims are just the wrong color to make the news.

The point is to greatly reduce one type of murder that compared to other types of murder, has a disproportionate impact on children, and that has a realistic chance of success through regulation of a particular class of weapon.