Assault Weapons Should be Banned, Mayor Says
Mayors throughout country are signing letter to President, Congress seeking stricter gun control legislation.
Last week a 20-year-old man shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children, at a school in Newtown, Conn., his mother and himself. On Wednesday, more than 750 mayors from around the country, who are part of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) coalition, signed a letter to call on President Barack Obama and Congress to pass stricter gun control legislation. "With all the carnage from gun violence in our country, it's still almost impossible to believe that a mass shooting in a kindergarten class could happen," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement. Bloomberg is Co-Chair of MAIG. "We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak …
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Kevin Nedd
3:32 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Try starting with the weapons prohibited under the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which expired in 2004. It did not include baseball bats, nor did it include vehicles used to drive across town and assault school employees. more ›