Comments on: “Assault weapon” is just a PR stunt meant to fool the gullible

By: xblade

xblade — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:05:26 +0000

A Connecticut state law already banned assault weapons.

But it didn’t ban the “assault weapon” used in Sandy Hook. Don’t worry, Congress will fix that loophole. It will not escape the next “assault weapons” ban.

By: baldylox

baldylox — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:57:42 +0000

petefrt on January 2, 2013 at 9:15 PM

The definition of “assault weapon” includes select burst or full auto fire; this isn’t readily available to the public.

Wrong. That’s the definition of ‘Assault Rifle’. ‘Assault Weapon’ has no meaning whatsoever and was coined in the 90′s by the anti-gun lobby. The difference between a Bushmaster .223 AR-15 and Grandpa’s old hunting rifle is purely cosmetic. Anti-gun zealots want to call the former an ‘Assault Weapon’, when I’d much rather be shot by that than Grandpa’s 30-30 semi-automatic deer rifle.

Most AR-15s are black and scary-looking, too. Is there some sort of racist undertone to the anti-gun movement? It’s a legitimate question. Are the anti-gun people just racists?

By: RoadRunner

RoadRunner — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:55:07 +0000

Just remember how many gullible people there are in this country (hint: Look at who’s president).

Anyway, gullible isn’t even a real word, since it’s not in the dictionary. Go ahead, look it up.

By: baldylox

baldylox — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:47:24 +0000

I am so GD sick of having this argument that I’m out of things to say.

Come take our guns. I mean that. Try. How are you dumbasses gonna take them? An army of anti-gun leftist hippies with no guns?

There’s also a real shortage of ammunition now because people are stockpiling. My local store was even all out of .22LR shells last week.

Gun-grabbing is only going to end in disaster, and that’s the last thing this country needs.

But anything to distract us all from Obama’s economic & foreign policies destroying our country in a way that guns never could is good, right?

We need to shut up about guns and focus on the real problem.

By: mad scientist

mad scientist — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:32:09 +0000

petefrt on January 2, 2013 at 9:15 PM

The definition of “assault weapon” includes select burst or full auto fire; this isn’t readily available to the public.
If you read the Ca law concerning banned weapons it really comes down to “it looks scary”.

By: mad scientist

mad scientist — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:30:01 +0000

Paul-Cincy on January 2, 2013 at 9:13 PM

Evidence a few days after the shooting stated the perpetrator had an AR rifle and left it in the car. The shootings were accomplished with handguns.

By: Oldnuke

Oldnuke — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:26:56 +0000

I always thought that a baseball bat is an assault weapon.

OldEnglish on January 2, 2013 at 9:12 PM

Ah yes the legendary “Sturmgebat”

By: petefrt

petefrt — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:15:30 +0000

“Assault” weapon is a political contrivance. A political contrivance with no basis in fact and no rationality or consistency of definition. An “assault” weapon is whatever the politicians say it is, in whatever legislation they use to ban it.

By: Paul-Cincy

Paul-Cincy — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:13:08 +0000

I was watching a rerun of Kojak from 40 years ago the other night … guilty pleasure … it featured a sniper and somewhat glorified, or humanized him, as he only shot “bad” guys. Anyway, me knowing nothing about rifles, I did catch the dialog that said he was using an AR-15 with .223 caliber bullets, which was substantially what the shooter in Newtown used.

Makes me think, what’s old is new again. And, we should look at banning Kojak reruns.

By: OldEnglish

OldEnglish — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:12:22 +0000

I always thought that a baseball bat is an assault weapon.