This is an FNN exclusive report from political reporter Stacy Conundrum interviewing Joshua Sureshoot, lobbyist for the gun industry.
SC: Mr Sureshoot, you were given an assignment by the Congressional Sub-Committee for Equitable Gun Regulation. Is that correct?
JB: That is correct. The Sub-Committee asked me to make recommendations on how the slaughter of innocent citizens by automatic and semi-automatic weapons could be reduced to a more sensible level. I assembled a group of knowledgeable people and we went to work.
SC: Reduced to a sensible level? Not eliminated?
JS: We sought to reduce the homicide rate without violating the Constitution.
SC: Who was on the sub-committee with you?
JS: I recruited the VP of marketing from Colt Industries, the Sales VP from Smith and Wesson, an executive from an ammunition manufacturer, a retired Marine general and two lawyers from the NRA.
SC: Doesn’t the makeup of the group guarantee a recommendation favoring the status quo?
JS: Not at all. These are mature people with many years of experience in making tough decisions. We examine every possible alternative and then decided on the best one. We struggled for almost an hour before agreeing on a recommendation.
JS: Does that mean you’re recommending a change in the gun laws to ban those types of weapons?
JS: Of course not. There is no need to go to those extreme — and possibly unconstitutional — means. Our recommendations will go a long way towards reducing the homicides that maniacs can perpetrate by reducing the number of rounds they can fire in a given time period.
SC: Can you explain that?
JS: Of course. Let us think back to the recent massacre in the Southwest. The shooter used a magazine holding thirty-three rounds. In other words, if the shooter was a competent marksman, he could have shot thirty-three individuals instead of the much smaller number he actually shot. Under our recommendation, a marksman could only shoot ten people.
SC: Unless the shooter had two weapons.
JS : Even then, the shooter could only shoot twenty people without stopping to reload. Once he stopped shooting, that is the signal for heroic citizens to attack the shooter and put an end to the slaughter. Even with two weapons, the shooter can only attack twenty targets, a forty percent reduction in possible causalities over the thirty-three round magazine. Now that is an example of a fine recommendation and it came from a lot of give-and-take in hard negotiations.
SC: Why not simply ban all automatic and semi-automatic weapons? They aren’t hunting weapons. They’re only purpose is to kill many people in a short time.
JS: That is an example of the shoddy logic used by anti-gun forces. Every citizen has a Constitutional right to own a weapon that can slaughter his family, friends, neighbors or even strangers whenever he feels the urge to commit a massacre. Baring his right to own such a weapon will be nothing short of an attack on our forefathers and the government they struggled to give birth to.
SC: Will the NRA endorse your recommendation?
JS: I think if Congress met with the NRA executives an agreement can be hammered out, one that the NRA will not oppose. Already, the NRA lawyers are briefing their executives in preparation for a meeting with Congress. Actually, this is a win-win-win-win situation, really. The weapon owners can keep their automatic and semi-automatic weapons – with only a slight decrease on firepower, the members of Congress will have kept their promise to reduce the slaughter, the NRA will not see any reason to withhold contributions from the politicians and finally, the citizens will be significantly less likely to be slaughtered by a maniac.
SC: So you think this is a good thing?
JS: Absolutely. This is what can happen when folks of good will sit down and talk through a difficult situation. We voters must urge Congress to address more problem areas in this simple bipartisan manner.
SC: Thank you, Mr Sureshoot. I am speechless at listening to your explanation of the benefits of your recommendation so I will have to break off the interview.
JS: Most people have the same reaction when they hear my recommendation or when they reflect on the positive ramifications of it.
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