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The anti-civil liberty camp won’t ever let an opportunity to lash out go by. We can’t say that we’ve seen it all, because more and more outlandish nonsense continues to pour out of the progressive pinko think tanks. One group, Josh Sugarmann’s Violence Policy Center, took to the web the other day to complain about Valentine’s Day related advertising from the firearms industry.
Togeteveryoneuptospeed,Sugarmannisthemanresponsibleforthetermso-called“assaultweapon.”ViolencePolicyCenter’s1988publication,“AssaultWeaponsandAccessoriesinAmerica,”highlightedwhatSugarmannreallythinksabouttheAmericanpeople[emphasisadded]:
Assaultweapons—justlikearmor-piercingbullets,machineguns,andplasticfirearms—areanewtopic.Theweapons’menacinglooks,coupledwiththepublic’sconfusionoverfullyautomaticmachinegunsversussemi-automaticassaultweapons—anythingthatlookslikeamachinegunisassumedtobeamachinegun—canonlyincreasethechanceofpublicsupportforrestrictionsontheseweapons.Inaddition,fewpeoplecanenvisionapracticalusefortheseweapons.
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