Pressure reps. for gun laws The ban on assault weapons is not a rational issue. Don’t believe for one moment that you can convince someone who holds the view of the unlimited right to purchase weapons of any type that assault style weapons should be banned. Tired of feeling helpless, I decided to send out an email to my whole email list (knowing well that it included some rather conservative friends). I anticipated a few people asking me to take them off my list. What I did not anticipate was the landslide of emails from people saying, “I am with …