Ending Gun Violence
Assault – noun, an unlawful physical attack upon another; an attempt or offer to do violence to another, with or without battery, verb, to make an assault upon; attack; assail.
By definition, assault is unlawful in all fifty states. However, weapons to commit assault are currently legal, while other military weapons of war are rightfully banned from private, individual ownership.
Assault weapon – noun, any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use.
The very first piece of legislation I will introduce is an assault weapons ban, a nationwide ban on all assault weapons with the below following new components.
Bans individual and private ownership of all assault weapons
Voluntary buy-back program using federal funds^ to compensate current owners at full market value of their banned weapon(s) for a 12-month period
Mandatory buy-back program using federal funds to compensate current owners at no more than ¼th market value for second 12-month period
After 24 months, mandatory give -back and collection of banned weapons
As laid out in the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, arms will be given to each State’s National Guard [the people’s] arsenal for use or destruction as each State’s Governor/National Guard [the people] sees fit
“A well-regulated Militia [meaning National Guard], being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people [meaning National Guard] to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
^This program could be paid for with DoD money saved from ending the wars to fight terrorism in the Middle East and finally fighting domestic terrorism and eliminating weapons of terror in the United States.
Let’s get these weapons off our streets, public spaces, and out of schools for good!
Enough is Enough!