Assault Weapons Ban? Here’s Where Lehigh Valley Lawmakers Stand
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey has change of heart, backs ban, as does Representative-Elect Cartwright.
On the hot-button issue of banning semi-automatic assault weapons, one area congressman-elect has come out swinging and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania has had a change of heart. Casey, who just won a second term, told the Philadelphia Inquirer recently that he was haunted by images from the massacre at Newtown where Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother before murdering 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Previously, he had opposed an assault weapons ban, but since Newtown he had decided he would support one as well as a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines. “The power of the weapon, the number of bullets that hit each child, that was so, to me, just so chilling, it haunts me,” Casey said. A Patch …
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Rich Cranium
9:13 am on Monday, March 25, 2013
Wow John was right, pigeon playing chess. more ›