#gun-control

It’s the 26th day on the new calendar and we have recorded 70 people dying in mass shootings. People with guns are in a better position to commit murder than people without guns. People in possession of weapons that can fire multiple rounds into a crowd are able to kill 7 or 10 or 20 of us at a time. Is this really what our Constitution guarantees?

On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez, a George W. Bush nominee, held that California’s long-standing ban on assault weapons violates the Second Amendment. His decision began with a now-infamous analogy comparing AR-15s to the Swiss Army knife

Benitez’s 94-page opinion is riddled with bizarre and unsupported claims—even more so than his previous decision blocking the kind of high-capacity magazine used in the Thousand Oaks shooting. Below are five of the opinion’s most alarming and unbelievable assertions, from COVID misinformation to outlandish speculation that AR-15s are necessary to stop rape.

1. COVID vaccines are more dangerous than assault weapons. 

2. Wounds from assault weapons are not especially lethal. 

3. Citizen militias are alive and well in the U.S.

4. Americans need assault weapons for safety, just like they need seat belts and smoke detectors. 

5. Banning assault weapons leads to mass rape.

Take the American Mass Causality Event Quiz:  Assault Riffle or Swiss Army Knife ? 

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