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benEzra

(12,148 posts)
15. "Certain types of guns used to kill people, exclusively."
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 10:25 AM
Aug 2015

This, he can be educated on.

The rifles that the DLC/Third Way want him to ban are among the *least* likely to kill people, and among the *most* likely to be used for sporting purposes and other lawful/moral uses.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-20/table_20_murder_by_state_types_of_weapons_2013.xls

His previous history shows he is not idealogically commited to the Prohibition position, so I'd give him the benefit of the doubt on that.

Vermont isn't the stop-and-frisk, gunz-r-evilll utopia of Bloomberg/Guliani's NYC; AR-15's are exceedingly popular in the state, and Vermont doesn't even require a license to carry a concealed 9mm for self-defense. It's one of those places that shows that a lawful gun culture is not a left/right issue.

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