You people up in Connecticut look very foolish from here. You compromise your citizens' constitutional rights by banning a weapon that kills fewer people per year than the hammer. Yes, hammers kill more people each year than assault rifles.

Why not ban the most used gun, handguns? They kill far far more. Is the goal to lower gun crime or just exert control? And of course, we already have over 20,000 gun laws. Plus criminals do not follow gun laws.

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So what have you acheived? Well, you have turned a bunch of otherwise law-abiding citizens into potential felons. I submit to the citizens of Connecticut that this is the real goal. With that done, the statists can compile a list and confiscate under threat of imprisonment. This is about control , not safety. And of course it is unconstitutional, but with Obama setting the pace on constitutionality, that is irrelevant. The Constitution is all but dead, especially in Connecticut.

Daniel Billing , Tampa, Fla.