JUSTIFICATION:
On Monday December 24, 2012, William Spengler, Jr., reported a fire to
the local fire department in Webster, NY. Then he waited with three
guns, one of which was an assault rifle,
for the firefighters to arrive. He killed two and seriously wounded
two others. Mr. Spengler was a convicted felon, and as such, was
prohibited by law from owning firearms. Somehow, he
managed to obtain them anyway. This horrendous incident, the massacre
at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut ten days earlier, in which
20 six and seven year-olds and 6 faculty and staff were murdered
execution-style, and other mass shootings that have occurred -
Columbine High School, where 12 students and one teacher were killed
and 21 injured, the Clackamas Town Center Mall in Oregon, where 2
people were killed and 1 wounded, the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek,
Wisconsin where 6 people were killed and 4 wounded, the Century Movie
Theater in Aurora, Colorado, where 12 people were killed and 58
wounded, and in broad daylight, Tucson. Arizona where six people were
killed and 11 wounded, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords,
who was severely wounded - clearly point to the need to ban
assault-style weapons, for stricter gun control laws and increased
criminal sanctions.
