The model and precedent took place on President Clinton's watch when assault type weapons were banned and the record speaks for itself. Those weapons are killing machines and do not belong on the streets of America. That, coupled with needed gun control laws will reduce crime and the mass killing of innocent people, especially children.
The administration of President George W. Bush allowed the assault weapons ban to expire and gun violence deaths have been running rampant ever since. And in the mean time, republican governed states have weakened gun laws and made it easier for people to buy weapons. When gun laws allow an 18 year old to buy two assault weapons, one that was used to kill 19 grade students and two adults in Uvalde and the republicans say the answer is to arm teachers, that is a sickness America can not afford to have.
The NRA and the republican coalition to oppose logical gun control legislation like a ban on assault type weapons are responsible for the carnage we see taking place today. Their solution of citizens with guns will stop the violence is nonsense. Police officers carry guns and they can not stop the killings because the streets are flooded with guns because of weak gun laws.
America needs a ban on assault type weapons now. The evidence is duly noted again at Uvalde, Texas. President Biden should also give serious consideration for the federal government to put more police officers on the streets of America as Clinton did and have the federal government pick up the tab. States and cities say they are short on police officers and do not have the financial means to hire more because politicians promise no new taxes instead of living up to their responsibility as elected officials to keep their states and cities and the people safe.
The answer to reverse the epidemic of gun violence deaths is known and within our power to correct. The republican party has to be called out for their failure to act in good faith to solve the terrible problem. We the people, must benefit from what the Sumerians said they were taught 6000 years ago. "The key to a better future is to understand the mistakes of the failed past." The failed past took place again this week in Uvalde, Texas.
Now is the time to learn from those past mistakes and take the proper action so the future will be better than the failed past.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
