Illinois’s legal brief seeks to defend their recently-enacted “assault weapons” ban by arguing that the lethality of these semi-automatic firearms means that they may be banned consistent with the 2nd Amendment. Mark Smith discusses this lethality argument here. [Watch]
Because the last thing you want to do when fighting armed attackers is kill them!
Be sure to also open up Illinois’ brief and Smith’s review on Beccaria, linked under the video.
[Via Jess]