Tag: assault weapons

"Every time you vote for a lawmaker who opposes gun safety, you’re voting for policies that make it more likely your loved one will be slaughtered."

"My son, Zaire, has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back, and another on his left leg," said Zeneta Everhart. "Now I want you to picture that exact scenario for one of your children."

"There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada."

Boulder now joins a few other cities and towns throughout the U.S. that are passing laws aimed at banning the controversial AR-15.

The new plan to ban semi-automatic weapons tightens the country's laws even further.

More than a dozen banks support five of the largest gun manufacturers connected to countless shooting tragedies in America.

“It is time to end this experiment with transmogrifying the entire US into Tombstone Territory with everyone armed to the teeth prepared to either be a bad guy or take out a bad guy. It is not working.”

Why would any civilized nation allow assault weapons to be sold, as we do, to anyone when no other Western nation does?

It's not only in the U.S. that these combat weapons—that is, arms developed for use on the battlefield—are being used against innocent, defenseless civilians. Shame, shame, shame.