By Herb Austin
We’re about to re-enter this battle over the control of assault weapons, or at least the massive clips that allow some loonie in a public place to spray over thirty rounds killing six people and wounding several others in a matter of seconds. The NRA is already massing and joining forces to remind congress – and the nation – that Americans should continue to have the freedom to own assault weapons if they so choose. Perhaps they should, but what about the “freedom” of other Americans to attend outdoor political gatherings and walk their streets without the threat of thugs, gangs, drug-dealers and loonies spraying everything in sight with flying bullets? We’ll always thugs, gangs, zealots and the loonies whom we cannot in most cases legally touch until their threat is actually proven by an actual act of violence or mayhem wherein people may be maimed or killed…but must we arm them with the weapons designed only to kill people in droves?

“Your freedom ends at the end of my nose,” is a saying as old as the hills – but is this just lip service? Do we really mean it?
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