Little Marco Unintentionally Causes A Crowd to Erupt In Cheers for His Gun Control Argument

[Julian Englis]

Rubio scores an own goal when he says the assault weapons ban "would literally ban every semi-automatic rifle that's sold in America" and the crowd erupts in cheers

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[lkinwi]

1. This townhall is telling the NRA and its toadie Republicans that their typical bs

work anymore.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Can you imagine what the world would be like if we took the steno pads away from those

professional “journalists,” and just forced these lying creeps to subject themselves to CITIZEN led press conferences???

[not fooled]

5. Yes

This type of citizen-led Q&A session should ensue on EVERY major policy issue, from tax policy to healthcare to gunz.

The corporate media have been effective gatekeepers of the message in this country, blocking true discussion of the spectrum of policy options and slanting coverage to favor big money views.

[gopiscrap]

11. agreed

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, at least he's doing his job ... the rest of em are a bunch of punks !!!

[TomSlick]

4. Ouch.

Own goal indeed.

[malthaussen]

6. "Own goal" **chuckle**

Love it. Of course, most Americans are scratching their heads wondering whatinhell that is.

-- Mal

[aggiesal]

7. n/t

[JohnnyRingo]

8. My 1st gun when I was a kid was a semi-auto Remington

It was a popular and almost indestructable .22 cal called the Nylon 66, and I had years of fun plinking with it. It was actually one step above a bb gun, and I don't see a reason to clump them in with high power military assault weapons, so I see Rubio's point on this one, as no one would use it for mass murder. It would likely lead to a case of mass wounding.

I'm all for banning weapons of war like Kalishnakovs and Bushmasters, but I don't want politicians who don't know the difference between a sporting rifle and a killing machine drafting the legislation. We need common sense gun regulation. Get rid of assault rifles.

[7962]

9. "common sense" being the operative word!

Realistically even if we DID ban ALL of them, they're still out there. And no one is going to turn them in either. But they do wear out, as do the high cap magazines.

[JohnnyRingo]

10. Also, banning future production...

...causes values to skyrocket. That makes them less available to common criminals or those on a suicide mission. They would be relegated to collector items, much like old Thompson machine guns, a weapon no one uses for killing anymore.

[Alice11111]

12. Government buy backs at more than they are worth