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Assault Weapons Ban

Posted by michael on Friday September 10, 2004 @07:13AM from the put-a-cap-in-someone-today dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With all the Constitutional arguments that appear on /., perhaps some readers might be interested in this BBC Article about the expiration of the Clinton assault weapons ban. Both presidential candidates have spoken in favor of it, but no one is willing to vote to keep it."

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Re:One, two, three, four, I declare a flame-war! by Zeinfeld · 2004-09-10 07:51 · Score: 3, Funny

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence.
The quotation is a well known fake. The typewriter font it is written in did not exist in Washington's day.

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Re:Right to keep and bear arms.... by wibs · 2004-09-10 08:29 · Score: 2, Funny

how am I going to kick the ass of a foreign army, marauding zombies, or invading aliens if I don't have a handy, insanely large supply of firepower?

Not with an Uzi, that's for sure. Everyone knows that nothing beats the good ol' American-ness of a shotgun blasting everything that moves. Especially zombies.

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Re:Finally! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-10 08:44 · Score: 1, Funny

Down boy! Just because you can respond to every attempt to be humorous with an overly-earnest attempt to create a "teachable moment" doesn't mean you have to.