stanc Wrote:I don't know how you took that meaning from my post. I was addressing the idea that banning bump stocks could prevent a ban of semi-autos. It won't. Future mass shootings will renew public and political pressure to ban semi-autos.
Gun owners gained nothing from the bump stock ban. In ordering the ban, the President handed the anti-gun crowd a victory without a fight, got no concessions in return, and further eroded the Second Amendment in the process.
I agree, and this may have opened the door for a legal gateway for a semi auto ban. Time will tell if the ATF former assistant chief's statement in 2010, "if they come out today and band the slide fire or binary trigger by name, they will have to make illegal, the operating principle" was prophetic or not. LR55 is absolutely correct when he stated
LR1955 Wrote:So, the debate is not about bump stocks being used in mass shootings. It is a pretty simple debate. Those who have wished to destroy the Constitution since the mid 60's and impose their totalitarian vision of 'social justice' on America (a country they believe is evil), want to disarm those they believe will oppose them. It is that simple.
Stopping mass shootings is not something the left wants. It deprives them of ammunition.