@17 stace: - … Hillary Clinton is contributing to this meme …
I just ate lunch, so I skipped the video.
But I’ll guess Closet HillRaiser GvS didn’t call her on this outright lie intended for an ignorant, gullible public. The AWB deceitfully addressed a class of weapons that were typically involved in less than 2% of crime nationally. Thus, any violent crime reduction attributable to the AWB per se would not have been statistically measurable. Greta would know that.
The goal of the defunct AWB was to have “living” legislation that could be tweaked as needed to ban an ever-widening selection of firearms. With an AWB in place, all that’s needed to ban a particular model is to have it classified as an “assault weapon” and add it to the list. Some years ago CT came dangerously close to having all semi-automatic rifles banned in this way.
The key to understanding motivation for an AWB is the fact that – unlike the terms “assault rifle”, “battle rifle” or “semiautomatic rifle” – the term “assault weapon” has no inherent meaning and, thus, can be used to ban whatever the legislator wishes simply by making an arbitrary list of characteristics or makes/models and adding to that list as desired – kind of a “bill of attainder”, but for firearms.
Interestingly, the meaningless “assault weapon” term is much like other favorite leftist newspeak terms, like “social justice”, “sustainability” and “climate change”, which have whatever meaning a given leftist wants to apply to a given situation.
