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JUN
12
Swiss Army knife + AR-15 = A tragic false equivalence
By:
Michael E. Ross
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JUN
12
ON JUNE 4, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez overturned California’s assault weapons ban, calling one of the country’s most stringent measures against assault-style guns unconstitutional, in a 94-page ruling that upends the delicate discourse on guns and gun violence in the nation’s most populous state. “Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle,” Benitez said in his ruling’s introduction, writing what reads like a product description in a gun-shop brochure. “This case is not about extraordinary weapons lying at the outer limits of 2nd Amendment protection. The banned ‘assault weapons’ are not bazookas, howitzers, or machine guns. Those arms are dangerous and solely useful for military purposes,” his ruling said. ◊ ◊ ◊ Never mind the casual conflation of an everyday too
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