Here are some of the brain-dead arguments against controlling access to automatic weapons and endless quantities of ammo (bought by the shooter online, no questions asked) from our "representatives":
Gov. John W. Hickenlooper of Colorado, a Democrat, told CNN’s “State of the Union” that the killer might have built a bomb or found some other lethal device if no assault weapons had been around. And Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, defended people’s rights to own large-quantity ammunition magazines.
“The fact of the matter is, there are magazines, 30-round magazines, that are just common all over the place, and you simply can’t keep these weapons out of the hands of sick, demented individuals that want to do harm,” Mr. Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.” “And when you try and do it, you restrict our freedoms.”
To gun groups, such an unfettered marketplace stands as a bulwark of their Second Amendment rights.
Dudley Brown, executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, said there was no need to track sales of ammunition or require ammunition dealers to follow the same strictures as gun dealerships. He said law-abiding sportsmen and target shooters often bought ammunition in bulk to save money, and may keep rounds on their shelves for years. He said they can easily blow through 400 or 500 rounds in one vigorous day at a shooting range.
“I call 6,000 rounds of ammunition running low,” he said. Jane Public actually had no comment. The only thing that was heard in the commotion was, "Aim for a whale amount. Bring that number higher. Bigger. A whale size"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/us/online-ammunition-sales-highlighted-by-aurora-shootings.html?_r=1&hpw
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