The Sad and Deadly Truth Behind Military Style Rifles

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Glenn R. Geist
7 years ago

No contest, but yesterday someone sent me a diatribe showing how crime has decreased in Australia because of their recent gun laws. Unfortunately Snopes says it’s almost all fake. Isn’t it funny that the same people who tell me the NRA has stifled data gathering about gun crimes, perpetuate an endless stream of fake data. Like the one yesterday showing George Washington mocking our tolerance of “assault” weapons which fire 13.3 rounds per second. Nothing, and particularly not an autoloader fires at anything like that rate. But why tell the truth when your cause is holy and righteous and the end justifies the means? 36000 gun homicides a year? More like 15000, but hey, it’s a noble cause and endless repetition of a lie is better than truth.

Forgive me for not trusting people who lie,

7 years ago

We have to face the fact that this is (sort of) a Democracy where the people are (sort of) sovereign. America has loved guns for hundreds of years even though the need for them has declined. Does it help that so much gun control rhetoric is dishonest and panic driven? Does it help that the public balks at the idea that we’d all be safer if we were helpless and dependent on the Government for protection? The obstinacy and sophistry on all sides makes any progress all the more difficult.

I’m just as upset by the loss of the 4th amendment through that sarcastically named “patriot act” Nobody seems to have noticed though.

Reply to  Glenn Geist
7 years ago

There are some provisions of the Patriot Act that I object to, but not the entire act. Unfortunately it was created with that “Act Now” mentality following 9/11, and as a result I think some of our freedoms were compromised. As to the Second Amendment, I think it needs to be amended, and laws need to be created regulating the ownership of weapons, all weapons, mirroring Australia, and the UK.

7 years ago

Scrapping your second amendment is sensible.

It’ll never happen though will it?

Reply to  Neil Bamforth
7 years ago

Scrapping it? No. Adding amendments to it? Possibly, but not anytime soon. That would take a mass shooting of the congress, and even I don’t want that, but it gives you an idea what idiots many of them are.

Glenn R. Geist
7 years ago

My sentiments exactly! There is no national conversation, only a recitation. The next person who tells me the nation decided that after Sandy Hook we will tolerate having our kids murdered is going to get it from me. Who thought that up? Who still thinks universal background checks will stop kids from stealing guns or fully vetted people will turn out to be bad guys? Tell me why nobody will attribute any of the mayhem to a Glock 17, which also accepts extended magazines? Most murders are committed with handguns for obvious reasons. by why bother to make new signs and slogans when nothing makes any sense in the first placce.

Canned rhetoric.Moldy and worn out phrases and enough magic thinking to take to Vegas.

Glenn R. Geist
7 years ago

I can hardly believe it, my huge response here seems to have disappeared. Let me summarize: It’s not the STYLE, it’s the magazine capacity. The only significant difference between “military style” and something like a Ruger Ranch rifle is the removable magazine. Virtually any modern firearm except a revolver or lever action can be fitted with high capacity magazines of as much as 100 rounds. Ban the AK and ban the AR, you’re still going to have a hundred or so million weapons that can do the same thing and sometimes better. Sure, those two may be the terrorist’s choice, but banning Fords doesn’t mean I won’t switch to Chevrolet.

People do like military style. I live only a few miles from the very store mentioned here and don’t you know the customers tend to be dressed in camo and drive off-road vehicles. Of course with countless faux army weapons isn’t it amazing how few are used in crimes? As you say, remote area hunters and off the grid people like them. So let them have 6 round magazines. No big deal.

Reply to  Glenn R. Geist
7 years ago

I agree, and thought of that when I devised the headline, but I couldn’t fit it all, so I said: fuck it! 🙂

Reply to  Glenn R. Geist
7 years ago

I hate to hear that, although the same thing happens to me from time to time if I click “comment” and then jump too quickly to another page without giving it time to load. At least that’s my take on it 🙂

Admin
7 years ago

No one needs to be allowed to buy/carry weapons such as those mentioned in the news article. It’s time to say it: NO MORE GUNS!

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