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How many republicans in the house will vote for in favor of the assault weapons ban?

Because it wouldn't take very many to get it passed.

Update:

@picador the founders wanted to make sure that whatever the government was going to use against its people would also be available to the people themselves. If the government used nuclear weapons against its own people I would say they should be legal too.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Where in the 2nd amendment does it say "muskets" ? The point of the 2nd amendment is to give the people the power to never be taken over by government. It's purpose is to fight against tyranny! I just wish those who opposed the 2nd amendment would learn about it before commenting on it. Learn about guns yourself instead of being told BS lies by the Liberal media who can't even understand the difference between a "clip" and a "magazine". And for the record AR-15 doesn't stand for Assault Rifle!!! You stupid ignorant asses!!!! Armalite Rifle !!!!!!

    Source(s): Common Fucking Sense!!
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    penal complex would not deter criminals. If women and men persons did no longer use weapons for crime they could use knives. A waiting era and a historic previous make certain and can be a psychiatric analysis could carry criminals from getting weapons the expert approach. the sole reason it ultimately finally ends up punishing the regulation abiding citizen once you think approximately that the regulation abiding citizen would not bypass to the black industry for a gun. in the event that they did, they could finally end up a criminal. Crime and homicide costs won't be approximately weapons or gun manage. that's on the subject of the lack of ability of delight in for human lives. Japan has strict gun manage legal rules and that they've very low crime and homicide costs. Canada has weapons in each and each place and espresso crime and homicide costs.

  • Mr.357
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Probably very few if any. In 1994, just about everyone in Congress that voted for it and to find a real job after the following election.

  • 8 years ago

    As a Republican myself, I sincerely hope that 100% would vote for it. The adopters of the 2nd Amendment envisioned "arms" as muskets. If we can interpret their words to include assualt weapons, why not nuclear weapons. Are they not "arms" too?

    Edit - Nice debating point. Are we not all creatures of our times? Is not grandchild aghast at grandpa's taste in music and vice versa? What was the only experience of government worth resisting in the time of the founders? British colonists, that's who. British colonialism was so close to their experience and their consciousness that they could not conceive of the possibility of an alien government comprised of ostensibly loyal Americans. (Royalist Americans were fleeing to Canada in droves, but there was no assurance that they wouldn't come back in force.) The gun lobby rests its case upon the ethos prevailing in the blink of an historical eye. Blacks do the same vis a vis slavery.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Since most "Republicans" in Congress have betrayed the party long ago, I'd say at least 65% of them.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    There's no such thing as an "assault weapon".

    Source(s): ‡ Fascist leftists confiscate.
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