“Assault weapons were made for one purpose,” Cicilline said in a statement. “They are designed to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time. They do not belong in our communities.”
Moot point, indeed. I just finished rereading "One Second After" and the two sequels. Set right here in North Carolina, "One Second After", published in 2009, for those who aren't aware, depicts this country after North Korea and Iran set off EMPs here (and other places in the world), and the savagery and desperation to which people were driven. Guns, lots of them, and powerful ones, figured prominently in the survival of any and all "communities".
The author hoped his book would wake up the government with regard to hardening and securing our electrical grid and its associated elements. By 2015, the date of the first sequel, "One Year After", still
nothing had been done, and is still unprotected to this day.
So much for this government a s s hole, Cicilline, and his arrogant pronouncements, who has made not-move-one toward doing his damn job in seeing that our energy grid is hardened, but would render us more helpless in the face of his neglect.
I hatez theez peepul.