Just like the old weapons ban. Speaking in Chatanooga, Tennessee, Reverend Jackson deployed recycled rhetoric along the usual theme: black youth as victims of an indifferent, racist society. And evil gun makers. After calling for jobs creation in the black community through vastly decreased deficit spending and immediate tax reductions for businesses and private citizens (just kidding), Jackson “advocated a ban on assault weapons, saying the U.S. government stops the source of weapons for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and should view inner-city gun crime similarly,” the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. “Kids in the ghetto don’t make semiautomatic weapons,” Jackson opined. “We’ve got to do something culturally about the easy access to guns and drugs.” [watch the video here] Not everyone on the sharp end agrees with the first class flyer’s take on crime reduction . . .