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Serious Gun Regulation Bill Doesn't 'Take Guns Away'

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January 25, 2013

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"Sen. Dianne Feinstein along with several fellow Democrats and a group of police officers and gun victims unveiled legislation Thursday that would restrict access to firearms, presenting an organized front in the face of opposition from the gun lobby.

One by one, the California lawmaker and her co-sponsors said that a ban on certain semiautomatic weapons would help stop gun massacres. Many of bill's sponsors are longtime gun-control advocates, and have become more determined to reinstate a ban on semiautomatic weapons deemed assault weapons after the December shootings in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 schoolchildren and six school staff members dead, as well as the alleged shooter and his mother."*

Dianne Feinstein introduced a sweeping bill in the Senate that would ban specific types of assault weapons. No weapon would be taken form anyone. Is the bill too much or not enough to enact change? Will it likely be passed? John Iadarola (TYT University), Desi Doyen (Green News Report), and Lissette Padilla (The Lip TV) discuss.

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