"Ban Assault Weapons"

Do these two old buffoons realized there is no such thing as an "Assault Rifle" and it's a term the media has conjured up. SHEEP.

What next? Ban Knives? Ban Swords? Ban Rocks? Ban Metal Pipes? You will never BAN or STOP evil people. WAKE UP.

@Daniel Luechtefeld. Yes, the dim witted founders of our republic could never have imagined technological advancement. /sarcasm

It's amazing how ignorance is rampant in Portland. Do you jack wagons really believe that the second ammendment applies only to muzzle loading weapons? It applies to arms, period! The muzzle loader was the assult weapon of it's era and was used to overthow a corrupt government that was marching to disarm the colonists. The second ammendment is there so the people can have the same weapons the government has, in case they need to overthrow a government that has become "destructive".

...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...(Declaration of Independance).

There are supposed to be checks and ballances in our government, between the three branches. However, the check and ballance between the people and government is the second ammendment. Our right to be armed and overthrow a corrupt government is what is designed to keep this government "for and by the people". For those who say "assult weapons" are more powerful than hunting weapons, you too are ignorant. First off, an assult weapon is a selective fire weapon, capable of being used in full auto mode. The semi auto rifles the media and un-constitunal polititions allude to as assult weapons are, infact look alike, semi auto, military type weapons. Most of these weapons shoot less powerful cartriges than hunting rifles as they are designed to injure moreso than to kill. It's how war works these days. These less powerful cartriges also allow for more ammunition to be carried in a military situation. If you idiots are going to post on here, please do some research. And, while you're at it, stop spewing shit with intent on totally ruining what little freedom we have left in this country.

If the Second Amendment only protects the right to keep and bear muzzle-loaders, the First Amendment only protects speech written in long hand, or while standing on a soap box.

The massacre in Aurora is an awful tragedy. Infact it's downright sickening. However, if we were to allow the second ammendment to be dismantled, what recourse would we as people have to prevent other things like this from happening? Criminals are just that, criminals because they have a blatent disregard for the law. They will aquire what ever they need by dirty means to perpetuate their crimes. Leaving a populace disarmed will only make the people more susseptible to this type of violence. And, that's the good news. The bad news is that small scale criminals, including the guy who committed this act in the movie theater are nothing in contrast to the crimes against humanity that will be committed by ours and other governments once we are disarmed. Ask 12 million Jews what they thought of Hitler's gun control act of 1938, "for a kinder, gentler nation". We can not afford to disarm, lest we be lambs to the slaughter.

Poor misinformed people..... there are some of you out there that think not owning weapons will stop all this,and make everything bad go away, but thinking that way will only make things worse in America (Land of the free). You should talk to people who had weapons and had them taken away (former soviet union) or recently the Syrians (who are getting shot up by their government right now) not being able to defend themselves from them. I have never known a weapon that magically jumped up by itself and shot people dead, but i have know objects (CARS) that under control of "qualified people" that have killed millions and seldom heard anything to ban them. Seems your not up in arms about that. Hypocrites....