Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson Urges His Colleagues in Congress to Ban Assault Weapons

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Today I call on my colleagues in the House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans, to ban assault rifles permanently.

Yesterday in Orlando, one man, armed with one assault rifle, caused so much carnage in a few short minutes that he killed 49 people, and 53 others were injured. It was the worst mass shooting in the history of our country.

The killer couldn't have committed this mass murder with a knife, or a pistol. He had an assault rifle, and he used it as a weapon of mass destruction. It was the same weapon as the one used in the Sandy Hook massacre. A weapon like that makes it far too easy to kill many people, very quickly.

Until last summer, virtually any would-be killer could have bought one at Walmart. Then the company, the largest seller of guns in America, decided to sell militarized weapons of war to civilians no longer.
It's too late to save the 49 innocent people who died in Orlando yesterday, but it's not too late to save countless other lives -- if we act now.

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