The Virginia House of Delegates approved an assault weapons ban on a party line vote Friday.

Fairfax County Democratic Del. Dan Helmer’s bill would end the sale and transfer of assault firearms manufactured after July 1, 2024. It also prohibits the sale of certain large capacity magazines.

“This bill would stop the sale of weapons similar to those I and many of the other veterans carried in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Helmer said.

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    9 months ago

    FFS, we have a social problem, not a gun problem.

    Then when you’re all done fixing those social problems, you can have your guns back.

    If you don’t like idea, jump in your time machine and fuck off back to the 70s.

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      9 months ago

      with that attitude, let’s do the same for automotives. Back to horse and buggy everyone, too many drunk and crazy aggressive drivers, too many needless deaths. Guess we should just ban em all!

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        9 months ago

        Oh you mean the things we are constantly adjusting legislation for to reduce the risk to the public?

        Fortunately, the alcohol lobby isn’t donating millions of dollars to Republicans to make sure DUI laws never happen.

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      9 months ago

      Cool, now lets do speech, religion, unreasonable search and seizure, right to remain silent, drinking, and voting. Until every single person out of 350M people in the US can use those rights in a way that is deemed socially acceptable, they should be completely eliminated.