Gun violence prevention

[SecularMotion]

Nancy Pelosi won’t ‘duck’ gun violence

For an hour this afternoon over sandwiches and salads, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi held forth in her U.S. Capitol conference room with a bunch of opinion writers on the issues of the day. These sessions are always great because she never holds back. The former speaker of the House mixes hard-nosed political strategy with humor and sometimes the thinly veiled dig.

Pelosi talked about a lot of things: the debt ceiling, House Republican chaos, immigration and entitlements. And I’ll come back to the debt ceiling in a later post. But it was the former House speaker’s comments on gun control that deserve attention right now.

“We don’t talk about ‘gun control.’ We talk about ‘gun violence prevention.’ That contains a lot of things, [including] ending the sale of high-capacity assault magazines,” Pelosi said, discussing the raw political calculus involved in swaying public debate. “We are also instructed to say [not] a ban on assault weapons [but] a ban on the sale of assault weapons because the other side then takes it as a confiscation of weapons….”

This is all very smart. “Gun violence prevention” and the focus on the “sale of” rather than the “ban on” assault weapons focuses the debate where it should have been for decades now. Despite what the right says, the discussion has never been about taking guns away from people. It has been about ensuring that those who own guns get them legally and that the guns they buy don’t unduly threaten public safety. And no one has yet to give me a legitimate reason why I or anyone else outside of the military should be able to buy an assault weapon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/01/04/nancy-pelosi-wont-duck-gun-violence/

[rl6214]

1. So it's all about being deceptive in your talking points

[gejohnston]

2. In a liberal democracy, as opposed to a authoritarian system,

And no one has yet to give me a legitimate reason why I or anyone else outside of the military should be able to buy an assault weapon.

it is up to the blogger to give a legitimate argument why anyone shouldn't. Since the blogger doesn't have the slightest idea what an "assault weapon" actually is, and how they are different than any other semi automatic rifle or carbine.