Oregon ballot measure to ban "Assault" Weapons

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It isn't "anti-gun rhetoric" to recognize that the availability of self-loading firearms and high-capacity magazines is what enables mass shootings to be conducted.

Y'all can stick your heads in the sand and delude yourselves into believing the gun is not a factor, but that will neither solve the problem, nor stop anti-gun laws.

Self loading firearms and high capacity magazines have been around a lot longer than this “mass shooting” trend.

The guns have changed very little.

PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED A LOT!

GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!

Guns are not the CAUSE of the problem, but unfortunately they are a significant PART of the problem.

There is a reason that perpetrators of mass shootings use rifles like this...



...instead of rifles like this:

[video=youtube;SeYF06JzVKo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeYF06JzVKo[/video]