You just knew they weren’t going to stop with “assault weapons”…
On Friday night’s Rachel Maddow Show, Representative Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) told guest host Melissa Harris-Perry that the violence in his Chicago district could be cause for lawmakers to take action not only on semi-automatic weapons, but on handguns. Noting (correctly) that nearly 97 percent of Chicago gun murders in 2011 were carried out with handguns, Gutiérrez said,
”It’s clear that we need to look at handguns also.”
Via National Review:
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