Quote Originally Posted by peggy View Post
I absolutely agree with the gun control measures you set out. There needs to be national standards, across every state, every gun show and every purchase from Walmart to private sales. Here's where it gets sticky. There aren't standards. Some states have strict controls while others have practically no controls.
Why exactly do we need "national standards"? 29 out of the 50 States had 5 or fewer murders by rifles of all kinds in 2010, 18 of those States had either 1 or 0 murders by rifle:
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...es/10tbl20.xls

We already have the usual suspects in Congress wanting to ban assault rifles nationwide, even though in the vast majority of the country murder by rifle is incredibly rare.