To 'Demilitarize' Police, First Ban Assault Weapons
That massive shift in the power dynamic between police and criminals could only happen because Congress appropriately banned semi-automatic military-style rifles in 1986.
Must have missed that ban.
Massachusetts has had strict gun control laws since 1998 — among the strictest in the country. It has banned the sale and transfer of semi-automatic rifles since 2016. Crime hasn’t gone up, fascism — at least on the local level — hasn’t gone up. Safety, on the other hand? It’s a good bet.
We can start to break this cycle at the ballot box on Nov. 3 by electing a new president and Congress committed to demilitarizing the police by enacting a permanent assault weapons ban.