Marco Rubio's Talking Point About Banning Assault Rifles Did Not Go Over The Way He Intended At a CNN town hall with the Stoneman Douglas community, Senator Marco Rubio tried to score a rhetorical point by saying "you would literally have to ban every semi-automatic rifle" if you wanted to get around assault weapon loopholes. Did he expect the crowd to gasp in horror? They cheered. February 22, 2018 at 11:01PM