See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Via John Hinderaker, Barack Obama said the following at a fundraiser last night in San Fransisco on Newtown and what must be done to combate further mass shootings:

Now, over the next couple of months, we’ve got a couple of issues: gun control. (Applause.) I just came from Denver, where the issue of gun violence is something that has haunted families for way too long, and it is possible for us to create common-sense gun safety measures that respect the traditions of gun ownership in this country and hunters and sportsmen, but also make sure that we don’t have another 20 children in a classroom gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon — by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.   (Emphasis added.)

Of course, the shooter did not use a "fully automatic weapon."  Instead it was a Bushmaster AR-15, which is a semi-automatic weapon.  Fully automatic weapons were banned in 1934 with the passage of the National Firearms Act.  Currently, there are approximately 250,000 automatic weapons in private ownership, which is heavily regulated by the ATF.

It's amazing that the very people who are wanting to pass laws that would enact a ban on "assault" weapons or reduce magazine capacities know absolutely nothing about which they speak.  And here I thought that it was the GOP who go on faith as opposed to the straight facts....