Miami Officials Call for Assault Weapons Ban

A masked gunman opened fire on mostly other teens with an AK-47, killing and wounding several individuals. At this time, the criminal has not been captured. The Miami Police Chief and others are calling for a nationwide ban on “assault weapons”.

Miami’s crime is higher than the national average.

Sounds like it’s a culture problem, not a gun problem.

From Webster’s Dictionary:

Assault:

A violent physical or verbal attack
A threat or attempt to inflict offensive physical contact or bodily harm on a person (as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner)

So a fist is an “assault weapon”. I think all fists ought to be banned from the streets of America.

By the way, here’s a few gun laws of Florida:

It is unlawful for:
• any convicted felon to have in his or her possession any firearm or to carry a concealed weapon unless his civil rights have been restored.
• The following persons to own, possess or use any firearm – drug addicts, alcoholics, mental incompetents, and vagrants.
• To sell, give, barter, lend or transfer a firearm or other weapon other than an ordinary pocketknife to a minor less than the age of 18 without his parent’s permission, or to any person of unsound mind.
• Any dealer to sell or transfer any firearm, pistol, Springfield rifle or other repeating rifle to a minor.
• A minor less than 18 years of age to possess a firearm, other than an unloaded firearm at his home, unless engaged in lawful activities.
No licensed gun dealer, manufacturer or importer shall sell or deliver any firearm to another person until he has obtained a completed form from the potential buyer or transferee and received approval from the Department of Law Enforcement by means of a toll-free telephone call.
Florida has mandatory sentence enhancements for any serious felony, such as murder, rape, aggravated assault, burglary or robbery, committed with a firearm. The penalty is increased if a machine gun or a semiautomatic firearm with magazine capacity of more than 20 centerfire cartridges is possessed during a serious felony or narcotics offense.
It is unlawful to knowingly discharge a firearm in any public place, or on the right of way of any paved public road, highway or street or over any road, highway, street or occupied building, except in defense of life or property, in performance of official duties or where expressly approved for hunting.
It is unlawful to have or carry a firearm in the presence of one or more persons and exhibit the firearm in a rude, careless, angry, or threatening manners, except in cases of self-defense.

So what does this tell us after the recent shootings in Miami?

GUN LAWS DON’T WORK