{"id":4734,"date":"2011-02-22T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/02\/22\/daily-star-or-red-star\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:30","slug":"daily-star-or-red-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4734","title":{"rendered":"Daily Star Or Red Star?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18088,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/azstarnet.com\\\/news\\\/opinion\\\/editorial\\\/article_d2687749-92aa-5d92-93bf-475d1beea35b.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tucson.com\\\/news\\\/opinion\\\/editorial\\\/article_d2687749-92aa-5d92-93bf-475d1beea35b.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18089,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/azstarnet.com\\\/news\\\/opinion\\\/article_e1866c57-aa76-5d0f-bf0a-ff972474b775.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tucson.com\\\/news\\\/opinion\\\/article_e1866c57-aa76-5d0f-bf0a-ff972474b775.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/azstarnet.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/article_d2687749-92aa-5d92-93bf-475d1beea35b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Arizona Daily Star<\/a> of Tucson has an editorial today calling for a reinstatement of the ban on &#8220;military-style assault weapons&#8221;. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Banning semiautomatic assault weapons designed to kill lots of people quickly isn&#8217;t quite as simple at it may appear on the surface. That must not keep us from trying.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, even given myriad defects in the now-expired federal assault-weapons ban, we could do a lot worse than essentially reinstating it as originally written. Flawed though it was, it reduced the flow of such weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, Congress should consider emulating California&#8217;s assault-weapons ban.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Daily Star, the California law has a one military feature and its banned. Frankly, I don&#8217;t know if they are correct or not as I haven&#8217;t had to deal with the California law. I do know that the good folks at CalGuns.net can tell you all about &#8220;bullet buttons&#8221; and other ways around the California law.<\/p>\n<p>What the editorial board of the Arizona Daily Star fails to mention is that the overall crime rate has gone down since the AWB sunsetted in 2004. I guess that doesn&#8217;t fit the narrative.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Charles Heller of the AZ Citizens Defense League was given an opportunity to write an op-ed responding to the Daily Star. It is entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/azstarnet.com\/news\/opinion\/article_e1866c57-aa76-5d0f-bf0a-ff972474b775.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gun Control: Punishing the Innocent.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Daily Star of Tucson has an editorial today calling for a reinstatement of the ban on &#8220;military-style&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4425,45],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arizona-daily-star","tag-gun-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}