Quote of the Day

Banning assault weapons would deprive mass shooters of their most devastating tool, and reassure every American who can no longer enter a public place without checking for the exits.

John Feinblatt
President of Everytown for Gun Safety
October 30, 2026
Letters to the editor: Banning assault weapons won’t solve our gun crisis, but it would certainly help

Great idea! And history gives us examples of how well bans works.

• Bans on heroin, meth, etc. reassures every American no friend or relative will become addicted or die of an overdose of these dangerous recreational drugs.
• The ban on alcohol reassured every American no family would be destroyed by a drunk driver, or alcoholic parent or spouse.
• The ban on marijuana reassured every American no friend or relative would spend their money getting high, losing motivation, and wasting their life away.
• Bans on pornography reassured every American no daughter would ever be tempted to enter a life of shame and sin for the money or their boys and men would become addicted to porn.
• Bans on prostitution reassured every American their daughters and sisters would not be subject to the degrading life of a prostitute giving most of her money to her pimp who supposedly protected her.
• And, even more on point, is that the 1994 ban on “assault weapons” was a huge component of the reason AR-15s became the most popular gun type in America. It reassured every American that their nagging fear of a tyrannical government really did want their guns was true.

Feinblatt and his ilk will go down on the same side of history as those who were members of, and supported, the KKK and the black codes. Via Grok:

Original KKK and Reconstruction era

Historians and contemporary accounts describe the first Klan (active roughly 1865–1870s) as systematically focused on disarming freed Black people. One frequently cited observation is that “almost universally the first thing done was to disarm the negroes and leave them defenseless.” The goal was to prevent resistance to white supremacist violence and political domination. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard, led the organization during this period when such disarmament was a core activity alongside other forms of intimidation.

This aligned with the Black Codes enacted by Southern state legislatures right after the Civil War. These explicitly barred freedmen from owning or carrying firearms or ammunition (Mississippi’s version was typical: no freedman “shall keep or carry fire-arms of any kind, or any ammunition”). White posses and groups like the Klan enforced them by seizing weapons. Congress responded in part through the Freedmen’s Bureau, Civil Rights Acts, and the 14th Amendment partly to protect the right of freedmen to keep and bear arms against such state and private interference.

After explicit racial bans became harder to sustain under the 14th Amendment, some Southern states shifted to facially neutral laws (e.g., permits, registration, or bans on inexpensive guns) that were enforced discriminatorily against Black people. Florida court opinions later openly noted that certain licensing laws were “passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers… [and] never intended to be applied to the white population.”

Do not ever let them forget, gun control is racist (and here).