Can We Ban Assault Rifles?
4 min readMar 30, 2023
The first time someone shot their way into an elementary school and mowed down a bunch of kids and adult staff was December 2012, when a 20-year-old took an AR-15 into the Sandy Hook Elementary School and blew the place apart.
I ended up at the meeting in D.C. held a couple of months later by Obama at which time Joe Biden, then Vice President, chaired an effort to develop a new gun law, an effort which ultimately…