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Related: About this forumFranken Backs Assault Weapon Ban
http://www.keyc.tv/story/20877687/franken-to-back-assault-weapon-banSenator Al Franken has lined up in support of a proposed assault weapons ban.
Like many on Capitol Hill, it was the mass murder of 26 people, including 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut that has led Senator Al Franken to get behind, and even offer amendments to a massive assault weapons ban being discussed in Congress.
"I believe in the 2nd Amendment. I believe people have the fundamental right to own a gun for hunting, for collection, for protection, for sport. I don't believe that the assault weapons are needed, we've seen so many of these tragedies."
The proposed bill also includes a ban on any magazine hold over ten rounds, and Franken is focusing on mental health treatment in amendments of his own.
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Franken Backs Assault Weapon Ban (Original Post)
jpak
Jan 2013
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discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)1. I've never thought that guy was...
...on the level.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)4. "The Decade of Me...Al Franken" n/t
spin
(17,493 posts)2. Not surprising. However some Democratic Senators do not support the AWB. ...
Another Democratic Senator Comes Out Against Assault Weapons Ban
DOUG MATACONIS · THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013
The prospects of an assault weapons ban actually making it through Congress appear to be growing dimmer by the day. During yesterdays hearings on gun control, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy made it clear that he was not at all inclined to support such a ban, which means it may have a rough time in committee. Even if it got out of committee, though, several Red State Democrats have made their opposition clear, the latest being Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor:
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Its not at all surprising to see Pryor hedging his bets here. Hes running for re-election in 2014 in a state that Mitt Romney won easily, and which has only gone Republican twice since 1980, and those were times when a popular former Arkansas Governor was at the top of the Democratic ticket. Additionally, Pryor has always had a strong record i support of the 2nd Amendment so its not really surprising that he would take this position. Although its worth noting that Pryor did vote in favor of renewing the 1994 ban when it came up in 2004. Although he wasnt running for re-election that year.
Pryor isnt the first Red State Democrat to take this position, and he wont be the last. What this suggests is that an assault weapons ban may not even make it through the Senate, never mind the House of Representatives.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/another-democratic-senator-comes-out-against-assault-weapons-ban/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OTB+(Outside+The+Beltway+%7C+OTB)
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)3. I never saw that one coming.
jpak, do you agree with Sen. Franken that people "have the fundamental right to own a gun...for protection"?