{"id":33013,"date":"2018-04-05T11:51:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33013"},"modified":"2018-04-05T11:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:51:44","slug":"what-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33013","title":{"rendered":"What Second Amendment?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS News<\/a> reported yesterday that Deerfield, Illinois<\/a> voted on Monday to ban the possession, sale, and manufacture of assault weapons and large capacity magazines to “increase the public’s sense of safety.” My first reaction to that is, “Exactly what is an assault weapon? What about assault knives, assault baseball bats, assault wasp spray, and maybe assault china?”<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

CBS Chicago<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reports, anyone refusing to give up their banned firearm will be fined $1,000 a day until the weapon is handed over or removed from the town’s limits.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ordinance<\/a> states, “The possession, manufacture and sale of assault weapons in the Village of Deerfield is not reasonably necessary to protect an individual’s right of self-defense or the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The law does actually define assault weapons:<\/p>\n

So, beginning June 13, banned assault weapons in Deerfield will include semiautomatic rifles with a fixed magazine and a capacity to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, shotguns with revolving cylinders, and conversion kits from which assault weapons can be assembled. And those are just a few of the firearm varieties banned. The list is long and includes all the following models or duplicates thereof: AK, AKM, AKS, AK-47<\/a>, AK-74, ARM, MAK90, Misr, NHM 90, NHM 91, SA 85, SA 93, VEPR, AR-10, AR-15, Bushmaster XM15<\/a>, Armalite M15, Olympic Arms PCR, AR70, Calico Liberty, Dragunov SVD Sniper Rifle, Dragunov SVU<\/a>, Fabrique NationalFN\/FAL, FN\/LAR, FNC, Hi-Point Carbine<\/a>, HK-91, Kel-Tec Sub Rifle, SAR-8<\/a>, Sturm, Ruger Mini-14, and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antique handguns that have been rendered permanently inoperable and weapons designed for Olympic target shooting events are exempt, as are retired police officers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We hope that our local decision helps spur state and national leaders to take steps to make our communities safer,” Deerfield Mayor Harriet Rosenthal\u00a0said in a press release<\/a>, after the ban on assault weapons passed unanimously.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At this point I should note that there was a federal assault weapons ban in effect from 1994 to 2004. Studies have shown that the ban had little impact on criminal activity. The action taken in Deerfield is in response to the recent school shooting in Florida. The actions in Deerfield do not line up with the facts. In 1990 the law was passed that created gun-free zones in schools. The law has had an effect opposite than what was intended–all but two of the mass shootings in school have taken place after schools were designated as gun-free zones. A gun-free zone simply tells the shooter that he will be unopposed until the police arrive.<\/p>\n

So I guess Deerfield believes that guns are the problem and that making some guns illegal will solve the problem. How has that worked in Chicago and Washington, D.C.?<\/p>\n

On April 2, ABC News<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

London<\/a>\u2019s monthly murder rate has overtaken New York City\u2019s<\/a> for the first time in modern history, according to new figures from the Metropolitan Police and the New York Police Department<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…London Mayor Sadiq Khan<\/a>\u2019s office said it was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d by the latest figures of knife crime<\/a> in the capital, but insisted that London \u201cremains one of the safest [cities] in the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York and London have similar-size populations of around 8.5 million each. But the U.S. city\u2019s murder rate has dropped dramatically, by about 87 percent, since its peak in the 1990s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

London\u2019s murder rate has in contrast risen by 38 percent since 2014 when the city had 94 killings. There were 119 murders in 2015, 109 in 2016 and 134 in 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Deerfield takes all the guns away from legal gun owners who have committed no crimes, do they honestly believe that criminals will not have access to guns? I hope I never have to shoot a home invader, but if I am ever faced with a home invader, I would rather have a gun than wait for the police to arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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