Coyote3855
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The Supreme Court may consider an appeal to an Illinois lower court decision to uphold a suburban ban on "assault" weapons and standard capacity magazines.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ju...rbs-assault-weapons-ban/ar-AAfyShS?li=AAa0dzB
The article contains the following quote from the lower court:
If a ban on semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines reduces the perceived risk from a mass shooting and makes the public feel safer as a result, that's a substantial benefit," Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote for the court. Variations of the Bushmaster AR-15, one of the guns specifically banned by Highland Park, were used in the Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre and the theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado.
What better evidence that gun control is all about "perceived risk" and how the public may "feel safer" as a result? And not that such measures could actually reduce crime or mass shootings.
You can't make this stuff up. What say you all about the possible results if this does go to the Supremes?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ju...rbs-assault-weapons-ban/ar-AAfyShS?li=AAa0dzB
The article contains the following quote from the lower court:
If a ban on semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines reduces the perceived risk from a mass shooting and makes the public feel safer as a result, that's a substantial benefit," Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote for the court. Variations of the Bushmaster AR-15, one of the guns specifically banned by Highland Park, were used in the Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre and the theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado.
What better evidence that gun control is all about "perceived risk" and how the public may "feel safer" as a result? And not that such measures could actually reduce crime or mass shootings.
You can't make this stuff up. What say you all about the possible results if this does go to the Supremes?
