Posted November 7, 2017 3:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Maine’s independent Senator Angus King was on Morning Joe to talk, in part, about the tragedy Sunday in Texas. They asked Sen. King if he was troubled about the Air Force’s failure to input the killer’s domestic violence conviction into the NICS. He was also asked about an assault weapon ban.

The relevant discussion started about the 6:20 mark.

King was doing pretty well for a while there. He’s absolutely right that so-called “assault rifles” are basically guns that are functionally no different than hunting rifles, just having a handful of cosmetic features that look scary. Assault weapon bans don’t actually make anyone safer, they just allow politicians to look like they’re doing something.

Unfortunately, King seemed more than willing to put magazine capacity on the table for discussion, which is a non-starter for the vast majority of gun rights advocates.

Then it veers into the realm of “do hunters need” and King fails to note one very important fact: The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting.

For all the kvetching about AR-15s and other so-called “assault rifles,” the media is failing to note that while it may have been too late for the dead in the First Baptist Church …Read the Rest

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