Gun Control

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lt. It’s best remembered that citizens make up the government, the military, other official jobs, and they also have families also.
Assault rifles and handguns are the biggest threat to American lives. Assault rifles are high-powered guns that can eliminate many targets (even those at great distance) in seconds. Handguns, the more popular weapon of criminals, can be concealed or hidden until its use. (Hand Gun Control)
Assault weapons were used…
• To kill 5 children and wound 29 others in a Stockton, CA schoolyard in 1989. The AK-47 held 75 - that’s right, 75 - bullets.
• To kill 8 people and 6 others at a San Francisco law firm in 1993. Two TEC-9’s with 50-round magazines were used in the massacre.
• To kill 2 CIA employees and wound three others outside Langley, VA headquarters in 1993.
• To kill 4 ATF special agents and wound 16 others with an arsenal of assault weapons at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX, when the officers were attempting to serve warrants on the cult in 1993.
Although assault weapons comprised only 1% of privately owned guns in America, they accounted for 8.4% of all guns traced to crime in 1988-91.

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