| Gangs and drug dealers armed with fully automatic | | | | unrelated to average American citizens, the Obama |
| firearms are committing crimes with these weapons | | | | administration's reaction is to ban our semi-automatic |
| on both sides of the border. The Obama | | | | rifles by calling them "assault weapons", which sounds |
| administration is blaming our relaxed gun control laws | | | | a lot like "assault rifle". |
| due to the weapons being used by these criminals, | | | | Anti gun organizations and politicians use creative |
| and subsequently wants to push for further | | | | rhetoric to confuse the public. Need proof? Ever hear |
| regulation here in the United States. But there is | | | | of the "Assault Weapons Ban"? It was just a ban on |
| something that they're not telling you. | | | | semi-automatic firearms, but calling them "assault |
| The criminals in Mexico are mainly using | | | | weapons" brings a lot more fear and panic to the |
| fully-automatic rifles (by definition, "assault rifles"). | | | | ignorant public, don't you think? |
| Here in the United States, it's nearly impossible for | | | | What's even more interesting is that anti gun |
| the average citizen to own these rifles. Further, our | | | | organizations wish to take it a step further by |
| ownership of unrelated firearms is being blamed as | | | | banning any guns with certain "dangerous features". |
| the source of Mexico's problems. | | | | Apparently, a bolt that holds a bayonet or a certain |
| Again, automatic rifles so heavily regulated here, the | | | | hand grip is so deadly that it must be banned. These |
| average citizen can not own one. If you want to buy | | | | people want to talk about common sense, but how |
| a rifle, it must be a semi-automatic or bolt-action rifle, | | | | is it common sense to think lives will be saved by |
| both commonly used for hunting. Sure, here in the | | | | banning ergonomic features? They know it won't! But |
| U.S. you can buy a semi-auto rifle that may look | | | | this is an incremental step to more gun control. |
| identical to an assault rifle (like an AR-15, which is the | | | | If you're against guns, that's fine. But for someone to |
| civilian version of the M16), but looks cannot hurt you. | | | | say that they are "pro gun" but "against assault |
| They function in entirely different ways! | | | | weapons" is absurdly ignorant. What they're |
| But, because criminals in Mexico are obtaining | | | | essentially saying is that they are "pro gun" but |
| automatic assault rifles from corrupt sources (third | | | | against anything that the government deems |
| world countries, corrupt government officials, etc.) | | | | "inappropriate". |