NY Times Admits It’s Too Late To Ban ‘Assault Rifles’
By Tom Knighton
Anti-gun columnists are plentiful, especially somewhere like the New York Times. The Gray Lady isn’t likely to attract a lot of pro-gun voices to their ranks. After all, it’s based in one of the most anti-gun cities within one of the most anti-gun states in the country. There’s absolutely nothing about the paper that looks appealing to most pro-gun voices except, maybe, prestige.
And among the pro-gun crowd, it doesn’t even have much of that.
Which is why it was surprising when a friend tagged me on an op-ed from the Times that basically argued that a so-called “assault weapon ban” was never going to get rid of those kinds of weapons.
The writer is clearly anti-gun, but she also believes that even if we banned the manufacture and sale of AR-15 and similar rifles right now, we’d have these with us for decades to come.
With proper care and maintenance, an AR-15 rifle manufactured today will fire just as effectively in the year 2119 and probably for decades after that.There are currently around 15 million military-style rifles in civilian hands in the United States. They are very rarely used in suicides or crimes. But when they are, the …Read the RestSource:: Bearing Arms
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