Sometimes politicians do not think things all the way through, and I am being kind saying “sometimes”.
Many of us were told by teachers and parents that just because “everyone” is doing something, or something is popular that is no reason that we should assume we can do it, or they were wrong in not letting us.
So the “everyone does it” explanation to allow something seems odd coming from a politician especially when that could be applied to so many things.
Senator Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr., Senator from Pennsylvania, opposes banning military-style weapons for the same reason your parents and teachers gave you the “Look” when you used it to whine for permission to do something.
His opposition to banning military-style weapons isn’t based on anything logical, statistical, legal, or factual, it is because,
“They are extremely popular, so to ban an extremely popular firearm, I’m not going to support that. That would be an infringement on the rights of law-abiding citizens.”
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But just like a kid demanding permission because everyone is doing it, an obviously absurd and easily countered claim, Toomey’s claim of popularity has no basis in fact since, because the government cannot presently collect that information and put it in a searchable electronic database, no one can know exactly how many people in the U.S. have assault weapons or want one.
If people can be allowed things merely because they are popular and people want to have them, Cocaine should be legal since it is popular and lots of people want to buy it.
Toomey also believes that guns referred to as assault weapons are usually no more powerful than regular hunting rifles and, although they have features that ordinary hunting rifles don’t have, are no more lethal.
The difference in magazine size and the number of bullets that can be shot in a small fraction of time in no way increase their lethality apparently.
In the Dayton, Ohio shooting, had the shooter’s magazines been completely full, he would have had a maximum of 250 rounds on him at the time of the attack, just like with a hunting rifle.