I get that a lot of left-leaning groups want gun control. High on their wish list is an "assault weapon" ban and magazine limits. They had it from 1994 to 2004; it made no difference, but they're still bitter that the law sunset.
So I'm not surprised to see so many groups pushing for that.
However, while I also understand that anti-gunners never will allow a good tragedy to go to waste, some arguments are dumber than others, and the League of Women Voters made the dumbest ever.
It’s not surprising that the League of Women Voters (LWV) called for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” after a violent Wednesday in which a radical leftist shot and killed Charlie Kirk in Utah and a 16-year-old shot and wounded two of his fellow students in a Colorado high school.
“This week, we saw two prominent examples, including a school shooting in Colorado that injured students, and the assassination of public figure Charlie Kirk at a university in Utah,” the organization said in a news release a few days later.
At the top of the group’s list of demands, as listed in the news release, was “banning assault weapons and limiting magazine size.” While the call for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” wasn’t surprising, it was quite stupid. Here’s why.
In the high-profile Kirk assassination, the weapon used was a bolt-action .30-06 rifle commonly used by hunters for deer, elk and other big game. With the first bolt-action rifle built way back in 1836, it’s far from a new advancement. And it’s certainly not an “assault rifle,” although the assassin turned it into that for his nefarious deed.
It also doesn’t hold very many rounds. Most bolt guns hold one round in the chamber and only three or four more in the magazine.
Additionally, the Colorado school shooting involved a revolver, which generally has six rounds--some have a bit more, some a bit less--and isn't magazine-fed at all, generally escaping magazine restrictions because of that.
In other words, they pointed to two high-profile incidents to push an assault weapon ban and a magazine restriction, but neither used an assault weapon nor would have been touched by a magazine restriction.
I mean, at least most anti-gunners keep putting out vague calls for gun control in the wake of these two incidents, but that allows them to leverage these incidents without looking like they need to ride on the short bus.
The League of Women Voters, on the other hand, just yelled, "Leeeeeroy Jenkins!" and charged headlong into the stupidity.
Well done, ladies. Well done.
There's nothing more transparent than using two incidents to push an agenda that actually shows what you're pushing for won't stop violence to illustrate just how little you know or care.
It's kind of impressive just how idiotic this was.
Of course, I missed it in and amongst everything else that was going on that week, so thanks to The Truth About Guns for putting it on my radar. I always love seeing just how moronic anti-gunners can be, and the League of Women Voters has certainly illustrated a new level of it for all to see. It would have been a shame to have missed it.
[Editor's Note- While the League of Women Voters might be as clueless as they seem, it's also worth considering whether the group knows these crimes involved a bolt-action rifle and a revolver, but still demanded gun and magazine bans because some low-information voters won't be aware of those facts. I guess the question is whether LWV is really that ignorant, or if they're hoping to take advantage of the ignorance of others - Cam]
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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