Udall comes out in favor of reinstating assault weapons ban - KWGN 2

Posted on: 2:33 pm, December 20, 2012, by Eli Stokols, updated on: 07:19am, December 21, 2012

DENVER ? In his first interview since last week?s deadly schoolhouse shooting in Newtown, Conn., Colorado Sen. Mark Udall told FOX31 Denver that he supports gun control legislation, including the reinstatement of the ban on assault weapons and a separate ban on high-capacity magazines.

?It?s just not acceptable to do nothing in the face of these periodic massacres,? Udall said, calling for a ?comprehensive approach? that also includes focusing on mental health.

?I?ve come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don?t have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.?

Udall, who released a broad statement last weekend issuing support for a national conversation about gun laws and mental health, but hadn?t answered questions about or taken a position on the specific proposals being advocated this week by President Obama and several Democratic lawmakers.

?I?ve been listening to Coloradans over the last week, I?ve been studying the laws that are in place. As I considered what happened in Aurora this summer and now Connecticut and the mass shootings in between, it just seems to me that guns that belong on the battlefield and are used to kill as many people as possible, that we ought to make sure they don?t get in the hands of people who want to commit these heinous crimes.

?I wanted to believe that the existing laws we have would be enough to prevent these tragedies, but experience tells us otherwise.?

Source: http://kwgn.com/2012/12/20/udall-comes-out-in-favor-of-reinstating-assault-weapons-ban/

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