Headline: "Clinton targets assault weapons"
- President-elect Barack Obama, just weeks before his inauguration.
By Chad D. Baus
No, that isn't a headline from a decade ago. Thanks to 52.9% of American voters, including some supposedly pro-gun individuals who bought into the line that a former Joyce Foundation board member could be pro-Second Amendment, Barack Obama is now our President, Eric Holder is now our Attorney General, and Hillary Clinton is now our Secretary of State.
And according to the BBC, Clinton is singing the same song as Holder, promising a gun ban.
From the story:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pledging further effort to help Mexico in its anti-drugs campaign.
Mrs Clinton said the use of military-style assault weapons was a particular concern, and she would discuss reimposing a ban on their sale.
A previous US decision to lift a ban on such sales had been a mistake, she told the NBC television network.
...Mrs Clinton said assault weapons did not belong on anyone's street.
She was referring to a ban on the sale of such powerful guns which was in effect in the United Sates between 1994 and 2004.
"During that time," said Mrs Clinton, "police in America were able to drive down crime because they didn't have to worry about these assault weapons getting into the hands of criminals and gang members.
"So we will make the case that we need to put more teeth in the law, try to prohibit the sale outside of our borders of these guns," she said, stressing that Congress might oppose such a ban.
Hillary Clinton is now the second high-ranking official in the Obama administration signaling that a gun ban is coming. On February 25, Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, told reporters that "as President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons."
A recent appearance by NRA Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association on Glenn Beck's Fox News show offers the real story on Mexico's illegal gun problem, as do the links provided below.
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