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Here is video of Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein officially putting forward their attack on the Second Amendment rights of every American. Their so-called “Assault Weapons Ban” would ban 158 firearms, but would clearly affect law-abiding citizens rather than preventing what it claims to prevent. The previous “Assault Weapons Ban” did not prevent the Columbine mass shooting, nor many other mass shootings. Feinstein and her ilk are seizing on the terrible Newtown tragedy to push their long-standing anti-gun agenda.

This bill is going nowhere. Even Joe Biden is already throwing it under the bus:

NBC NEWS: “Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday downplayed the importance of passing an assault weapons ban, even as Senate Democrats began a formal push to revive restrictions on those firearms.

“I’m much less concerned quite frankly about what you call an assault weapon than I am about magazines and the number of rounds that can be held in a magazine,” said Biden, who discussed gun violence during a Google hangout Thursday afternoon. . . . Read More

Guns that would be banned under Feinstein plan usat.ly/WRG8f1

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 24, 2013

So Feinstein doesn’t need to ban all those weapons after all. According to @joebiden, you can’t hit anything with them anyway.

— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) January 24, 2013

Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein Rolls out “Assault” Weapons Ban; Would ban 158 Firearms; VP Joe Biden already Downplaying Passage – Video 1/24/13