A poll was taken of 3,825 members of the Southern States Police Benevolent Association found 95.8 percent rejected an outright ban on all fire arms and 96.4 percent strongly supported firearm ownership for self protection. ... The officers surveyed ranked drugs, the decline of family values, and the combination of light prison sentences and early release programs as the top three reasons for the nations upsurge in violent crime. ... An even more alarming fact is that assault weapons were the firearms most commonly traced for organized crime and drug trafficking offenses. ... Some of the follow...
The Brady Law, which requires a five-day waiting period was passed during the Clinton administration, then on May 5, 1994, the government banned nineteen assault weapons linked to violent crimes. ... "The lesson the Brady Law and assault weapons ban is that the Americans public wants more gun laws not fewer" says Susan Whitmore, communications director for handgun Control Inc. ... According to a poll taken by USA today on December 17, 1993 The majority of gun owners and the public in general favor stricter gun control laws including requiring safety glasses, the Brady law, and bans on assaul...
But no one ever just thinks that by having all of these laws, and bans they'll always be safe and protected. ... If you have a loose cannon on drugs, and has bought guns before, what are you going to do if if he just decides to get high and goes and kills people because hes not in the right mindframe? ...
In the midst of surging controversy concerning gun control, the NRA argues that complete banning of guns would exacerbate rather than alleviate gun violence. ... The aforementioned Brady law, which was passed in November 1993, harbors good intentions towards keeping guns out of the wrong hands.** The law was named after Jim Brady who was shot and crippled during an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in1981.** This law requires a background check on any person purchasing a handgun, which allows merchants to deny sales to convicted felons, drug or alcohol addicts, non-U.S. residen...
The President stated his opinion to congress when he said, "Congress should restore a ban on military-style assault weapons and a 10-round limit for magazines. ... In the year 1994, a law was passed which banned the use of assault weapons. ... As you know, my position is we should ban all handguns, get rid of them, no manufacture, no sale, no importation, no transportation, no possession of a handgun. ...