September Public Forum: Assault Weapons

August 16 2012

The release is available here.

Background Information. 4

Background Information. 5

Background Information. 6

Acronyms. 7

Pro – Assault Weapons Widely Available. 8

Pro -- Assault Weapons Ban Reduces Gun Violence. 9

Pro -- Assault Weapons Ban Reduces Gun Violence. 10

Pro -- Assault Weapons Ban Reduces Gun Violence. 11

Pro -- Assault Weapons Ban Reduced Gun Violence. 12

Pro -- Assault Weapons Ban Reduced Gun Violence. 13

Pro -- Assault Weapons Ban Reduced Gun Violence. 14

Pro -- Assault Weapons Ban Reduced Gun Violence. 15

Pro -- Gun Control Reduces Violence. 16

Pro -- Answers to: States Solve Best. 17

Pro -- Answers to: Weapons Substitutes/Circumvention. 18

Pro -- Answers to: Weapons Substitutes/Circumvention. 19

Pro – Answers to: Weapons Substitutes/Black Market. 21

Pro -- Answers to: Other Handguns. 22

Pro -- Answers to: “They’ll Just Use Different Weapons”. 23

Pro – Answers to: Need Guns for Self-Defense. 24

Pro – Answers to: Second Amendment. 25

Pro – Answers to: Second Amendment. 31

Pro – Answers to: Second Amendment. 32

Pro – Answers to: Black Market. 33

Pro – Drug Trafficking. 34

Pro – Civil Liberties. 35

Pro -- Terrorism.. 36

Pro – Police Officer Attacks. 37

Con – Second Amendment. 38

Con – Second Amendment. 41

Con – Second Amendment. 42

Con – Second Amendment. 44

Con – Second Amendment – Answers To: Don’t Need an Assault Rifle. 45

Con -- Answers to: Gun Violence Decreased When the Act Was in Effect. 46

Con -- Answers to: Gun Violence Decreased When the Act Was in Effect. 47

Con -- Answers to: Gun Violence Decreased When the Act Was in Effect. 48

Con -- Answers to: Gun Violence Decreased When the Act Was in Effect. 49

Con – Assault Weapons Ban Useless. 50

Con -- Circumvention. 51

Con -- Circumvention. 52

Con -- Circumvention. 53

Con – Circumvention. 54

Con – Gun Control Fails. 55

Con – No Significant Reduction in Gun Violence. 56

Con -- Answers to: Ban (Empirically) Reduced Gun Violence. 59

Con – Answers To: More Likely to Use and Assault Weapon When Committing a Crime. 60

Con – State Responsibility. 62

Con – State Action Solves. 63

Con – State Action Better – Second Amendment. 64

Con -- Answers to: Assault Weapons Kill Police. 65

Con -- Answers to: Assault Weapons Readily Converted to Machine Guns. 66

Con -- Answers to: Criminals More Likely to Use Assault Weapons. 67

Con -- Answers to: Criminals More Likely to Use Assault Weapons. 69

Con -- Answers to: Criminals More Likely to Use Assault Weapons. 71

Con -- Answers to: Assault Weapons Involved in 16% of Homicides. 72

Con -- Answers to: “Criminals More Likely to Use Assault Weapons”. 73

Con – Answers to: AWS Weapons Kill More People/Substitution Irrelevant. 74

Con -- Answers To: Gun Violence Declined During the Ban. 75

Con -- Answers to: “Assault Weapons More Likely to Cause Death”. 76

Con – Answers to: Tuscon Shooter. 77

Con – Politics Disadvantage Links. 78