Author: Jim

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Forty five years ago I was asked by United States of America to fight for freedom in Viet Nam.  I was given an assault rifle that was designed to fire 20 bullets every 3 seconds (400 bullets per minute with a large enough clip) to kill as many of the enemy as possible in a shortest period of time.  Let’s be real, this type of destruction has no place in our peacetime civilized society.  Please be honest, ask yourself if you have the right to carry rocket propelled grenades (rpg) or a m60 machine gun? Of course not. Someone please tell me why you should be allowed to own an assault rifle.  Please don’t embarrass yourself by saying that it’s your right to bear arms or you need it for hunting.  Listen, I’m not professing to take our guns away, I am just saying that we need to have some sanity to the argument.  In today’s world we will always be confronted with emotionally disturbed people, terrorist, and criminals. Let’s just agree that we need to make it difficult to arm them with weapons designed to achieve mass slaughter of large number of human beings.
The bottom line is that there is no reason why weapons of mass destruction of any sort – chemical weapons, biological weapons, RPG’s, improvised explosive devices (IED’s), missiles, dirty bombs, nuclear devices, or assault weapons — should be easily accessible. For 10 years there was a ban on the production, ownership and use of assault weapons in the United States until Congress and the Bush Administration allowed it to lapse when it sunset and came up for reauthorization in 2004.
Can our elected officials be counted on to reinstate the assault weapons ban? Or does the blood stain of man’s inhumanity to man live within all of us?