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Ban Assault Weapons and High Capacity Clips

By Brian Hews

Publisher and President, Los Cerritos Community News

 

Before all you NRA members dismiss this column, I grew up shooting guns; youngest of three brothers who all hunted, I was shooting at ten years old; my trustee ā€œ4-10ā€ shotgun. Handguns, rifles, you name it. So I can speak from experience of a gun owner.

Yes this is in the wake of the senseless tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary.

Our gun control laws are broken and need to be fixed. Access is to guns is too easy.

All you NRA members who say guns don’t kill people, I would agree, you are right.

It’s the NRA lobby, lining the pockets of Congress so they vote to more easily put guns in the hands of deranged people who then go out and kill people.

And there have been nineteen of these massacres since the Virginia Tech shooting. Nineteen counting the Sandy Hook tragedy.

And the NRA has the brass to hold a press conference today saying we should put armed guards at every school in the nation. Great idea! Why not at shopping malls, churches, libraries, and other high traffic areas while we are at it?

What are we a third-world country now?

The money lobby is blinding the NRA’s Wayne Le Pierre. Instead of solving the problem the NRA endorses putting more guns in the hands of non-police trained guards; sure, nothing will go wrong.

The myopic NRA is ignoring the real problem. When something is broken to the point it is causing deaths, either directly or indirectly, it must be fixed, no matter the cost, be it in financial or in freedom terms.

When a car is found to have a defective accident system, the car company will spend money to fix it, they have to or people will die and the company will go out of business.

When an airplane is found to have a defective system, every plane is pulled out of service and the company is ordered to fix it.

After 9/11 the whole concept of airport security changed to the point we now have no problem taking our shoes off and getting dosed with radiation to feel safe.

Yet instead of taking their shoes off, the NRA says give people more guns.

We have defective gun laws that need to be fixed. As a gun owner, I know the only thing assault rifles and handguns are good for is shooting targets, cans….. and people. You don’t go out dear hunting with an assault rifle.

So here’s an idea: ban the sale of all guns (toy guns too, sorry kids) , with the exception of sales to police agencies, etc., that shoot more than six bullets, no more assault rifles or high capacity clips.

If you can’t hit something using six bullets you don’t deserve to own a gun anyway.

You can only own three guns. The government implements a bullet registry system so a person can only buy a certain amount of bullets per month/year. If you go to a shooting range that does not count against your bullet ration, you use their bullets. Same goes with shells used for shooting clay pigeons.

Ban the sale of all guns and ammunition on the Internet unless you register and follow strict guidelines and background checks.

(Did you know the Mormon Church owns the largest gun sale site on the Internet? It is KSL.com, look under their classified section. )

What is your problem with that NRA?

Every year you have to register your car, pay taxes, renew your insurance, and so forth. Why not your guns and bullets?

Sure this will hurt the gun industry. Given what Wall Street and CalPERS/STERS are doing they have to react anyway, their stock is getting dumped.

The unregulated sale of guns is a problem that needs to be fixed, exactly like we fixed airport security. Something has to give; arming more people is not the solution.

Lastly and most important, Congress and the Senate must act.

They must always be reminded of those who were killed at Sandy Hook, those innocent little kids and the adults who tried to save them, and just say no to the NRA lobby.

It’s the right thing to do.

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  • Stan Klecha says:

    Excellent article Mr. Hews ..money talks even in
    Congress .. the American people must call or
    e-mail their representatives to pass legistalion ..
    the will of the public must be strong and loud ..
    The gun lobby will fight and pay their respective
    legislators to kill any bill that relates to the
    control of sales of any weapons .. and the will
    of the public must be heard concerning the
    mentally ill and their ability to acquire any
    firearm ..

  • fred says:

    Ban Assault Media and High Capacity Reporting

    We have defective speech laws that need to be fixed.

    You can only write three articles. The government implements an article registry system so a person can only buy a certain amount of words per month/year.

    Ban the publication of all articles on the Internet unless you register and follow strict guidelines and background checks.

    What is your problem with that Brian?

    It’s the right thing to do.

  • Erin says:

    Why can’t the Anti-gun crowd get it through their thick skulls?! CRIMINALS DON’T CARE ABOUT GUN BANS! That’s why they’re CRIMINALS! Lanza committed 26 brutal murders…do you think he gave a damn that the guns he used were stolen? NO! Do you think he would have reconsidered his actions if the guns he used were on a “banned weapons list”? NO! Gun control only disarms the law-abiding. For the love of God and liberty, use your brain.

  • Mike Scullin says:

    There are so many flaws in your argument that I barely know where to start. I guess I will start at the headline. First of all ” Clips” and Magazines” are two different things and the names are not interchangeable.I will refer to them correctly so as not to cause any confusion. A Glock 17 was designed to carry a 17 round magazine. That would make a 17 round magazine a standard magazine not a hi-capacity magazine. So that means that a hi-capacity magazine is higher than the manufacturer’s standard size. The standard magazine size for an Ar-15 is 20 or 30 rounds. There are laws already in place in California that do not let you purchase or sell or bring in magazines larger than 10 rounds. So that point in California is moot.Israel has armed guards at schools, malls, churches and other high human traffic areas. Are they a third world country? Flying is not a right so of course TSA can employ anti 4th amendment practices like searching you without a search warrant because people are like sheep. (Sheeple).I do not think you understand 2nd amendment rights as a right not given but acknowledged. Your solutions are laughable. Your comparison to what we have to do to be allowed to drive which by the way is a privilege not a right is way off base and besides are there not people driving all over California without insurance or a drivers license or current registration. If you think you only need 6 rounds to defend yourself than you are opposed to the position taken by every gun self defense expert and every law enforcement agency in the United States. I will now discuss your other article in the January 18,2013 Community News. You state that a one-time membership fee for an individual is $11 when in fact it is $1,000. Then you quote a left wing liberal news agencies poll findings. Them like you have an agenda and will purposely provide incorrect information. There are no gun-show loopholes in California and since when did doing something that a state allows equal a loophole. I could go on but I would not want to confuse you with facts and I would not change your mind. I hope some readers see this and see the incorrect information you give out and the fallacy in your plan……http://www.minutemanreview.com/2008/09/clip-vs-magazine-lesson-in-firearm.html……https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp

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