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Don’t Ban Assault Weapons – Make Them Mandatory!

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

Don’t Ban Assault Weapons – Make Them Mandatory!

I was gravely disappointed with Judge Robert Benitez’s California federal court ruling that the Golden State’s ban on “assault weapons” like AR-15s is unconstitutional. It manifestly is unconstitutional, but the judge’s ruling does not go far enough. He should have found that our Constitution requires every healthy, law-abiding adult citizen to have a real assault rifle like an M16 – or, because diversity is important, an M4 – to defend his community and his country from all enemies both foreign and domestic.

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ON ASSAULT RIFLES

Guest post by B. Chandler from Australia

As a preface I will note that I was in high school in 1996 when our laws came down, and at that time owned no guns for anyone to pry from my cold, dead hands.

The common conception of how an assault weapon ban will pan out in America usually follows the same inscrutable logic. The Feds will ban the weapons and the citizens will revolt. Truth, Justice and the American way will be restored. The end.

I would offer an alternative. It’s less patriotic, there’s no swelling crescendo of “from sea to shining sea”, and there’s no happy ending. Thus it’s completely impossible. I offer it none-the-less.

After some run of the mill atrocity “that happens nowhere in the world but the USA” the Feds manage to pass a law banning “assault rifles”. There is a generous buyback included, paid for by the federal money spigot. They know only a few guns will be handed in initially so it’s more than affordable.

A thousand legal battles will be launched but they will take time to come to fruition and the government is not bound to wait until the result comes out in the wash.

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