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Greg Sargent, WashPost, today. Excerpts are now more meaningful to me in light of discussion in DF's thread yesterday (boldfacing mine, for emphasis):
Today’s New York Times has a terrific piece documenting the history of the ill-fated assault weapons ban of the 1990s. As you know, Dianne Feinstein is planning to reintroduce the ban during the next Congress. That has many “gun rights” types arguing that, hey, the ban never worked that well in the first place. But as the Times story documents very well, that’s because it was more riddled with holes than a paper person target.
Which raises a question that will be central to whether next year’s push for reform will work: What will Democrats do to craft an assault weapons ban that has a better chance of success this time?
A person familiar with the drafting of the bill assures me that it will be more sweeping, in an effort to plug many of the holes that bedeviled the first one.
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Gun advocates tell me they are hoping that the eventual version of the assault weapons ban Democrats get behind will resemble the state assault weapons ban in California, which is one of the strictest in the nation.
That would be "one of the strictest" gun laws in the country, the one in California, the one that DF maintains, and explained in his post yesterday, does not work. No wonder Sargent's "gun advocates" are hoping Democrats in Congress get behind it.
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Meanwhile, Senator Schumer is pushing for a vacuous "middle ground" in this Post op-ed piece today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-schumer-after-newtown-pursue-a-middle-ground-on-gun-limits/2012/12/19/69e36a98-4964-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_story.html
by AmericanDreamer on Thu, 12/20/2012 - 4:48pm