In regard to the recent terrorist attack by Muslims in San Bernardino I keep hearing the words “assault weapons”. At the same time I noticed that the police chief was very careful to try to qualify it with phrases like “assault type weapons”.
On the radio I was listening to the Armstrong and Getty Show and I heard that the rifles had been purchased legally. This does not compute. The process for buying fully automatic weapons makes it almost impossible. It is not a matter of filling out a few forms and waiting ten days.
“Assault weapons” is a term created by gun control advocates to describe any rifle that they think will scare people. They have pictures of Bonnie and Clyde hosing people with Thompson sub machine guns. They had Dillinger taking on he feds. In real life, it doesn’t work that way. Even in combat I hear that they are removing the automatic function. No one can hit anything on automatic. It is only useful in combat to make the enemy keep their heads down.
One of the most popular long guns in America is the Ruger 10/22. It is a semi-automatic that shoots 22 caliber ammunition. Semi automatic means you can only fire one round at a time but the gun cycles itself to load the next round. This is a rifle, which is technically a carbine or short rifle, that is a child’s first gun and is a lot of fun shooting at pine cones in the woods. This child’s first gun can be turned into an official assault weapon by adding cosmetic features like a stock with a handle protruding downward.
They say “assault weapon”. Have the media actually identified what was used? Maybe. I am not keeping up on the latest gossip about the terrorists in their latest gun free zone. Have they explained that they are the same weapons that millions use to hunt with? I doubt it.
People of good will and average intelligence need to stop using the term “assault weapon” and call people on it who do.
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One of the standard "weapons of mass disinformation" used by the left is the redefinitions of words.
ReplyDeleteThere is actually a term for it in post modern, new age philosophy. I can never remember the actual word but it deals with words meaning what you want them to mean and void of any objective essence.
DeleteGrace and peace.
It's all lies anyway, even a club is an assault weapon if you whack someone with it.Some have determined that an assault weapon must have a bayonet. I guess that would make a spear an assault weapon, while a regular rifle is not.
ReplyDeleteYou get the idea. I read about an elderly gentleman in England who had his cane confiscated by authorities because it looked dangerous I also understand that you can go to jail if you defend yourself with more vigor than is necessary when someone breaks into your house and attacks you.
DeleteAnd keep in mind that bullying can involve a look that makes you feel bad, so stop looking at me that way.
Grace and peace.