Josh Sugarmann
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Josh Sugarmann is the executive director and founder of the Violence Policy Center.
He is known for taking the positions that guns should be regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and that handguns should be banned.
Sugarmann is credited with first coining the term "assault weapon", which is derived from the designation Sturmgewehr 44 (Storm Rifle or alternately assault rifle), a German rifle made in World War II.
Sugarmann has written two books: Every Handgun is Aimed at You: A Case for Banning Handguns, and ''National Rifle Association: Money, Firepower & Fear.
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"On television news, anchors refer to the school shootings as “unavoidable,” as if such mass shootings are the bastard children born of hurricanes and snowstorms."
-Josh Sugarmann, "Schoolgirls Executed In Their Own Classroom: America Shrugs,[1]" October, 2006
"Assault weapons... are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons — anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun — can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons."
-Josh Sugarmann, "Assault Weapons: Analysis, New Research and Legislation", March 1989
"The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns."[citation needed]
-Josh Sugarmann, former communications director for the Coalition Against Gun Violence
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