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**Tom Servo** · January 30, 2013, 01:20 PM

LaPierre's testimony is here.

Basically,

expanded background checks won't work because we're not prosecuting criminals who try to buy guns now.
semiautomatic firearms are the most common choice for the law-abiding
we need better mental health reporting to the NICS database
armed school security is already common and practical
even the DOJ under Clinton admitted that the 1994 AWB had no measurable effect on violence or crime

There was audible booing and hissing during his speech. Feinstein grudgingly acknowledged that the roster of speakers was packed with anti-gun shills, and has promised her own round of supposedly impartial hearings.

Senator Grassley asked Dave Kopel about the 1994 ban, to which Kopel repied, "it was tried with great sincerity ... but it didn't seem to save any lives that the researchers could find."

January 30, 2013, 01:20 PM	#12
Tom Servo Staff Join Date: September 27, 2008 Location: Foothills of the Appalachians Posts: 13,059	LaPierre's testimony is here. Basically, expanded background checks won't work because we're not prosecuting criminals who try to buy guns now. semiautomatic firearms are the most common choice for the law-abiding we need better mental health reporting to the NICS database armed school security is already common and practical even the DOJ under Clinton admitted that the 1994 AWB had no measurable effect on violence or crime There was audible booing and hissing during his speech. Feinstein grudgingly acknowledged that the roster of speakers was packed with anti-gun shills, and has promised her own round of supposedly impartial hearings. Senator Grassley asked Dave Kopel about the 1994 ban, to which Kopel repied, "it was tried with great sincerity ... but it didn't seem to save any lives that the researchers could find." __________________ Sometimes it’s nice not to destroy the world for a change. --Randall Munroe Last edited by Tom Servo; January 30, 2013 at 01:27 PM.