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Will “Assault Weapons” kill us all? Only if we give them up!
May 16, 2008 | Tagged "Assault Weapons", "high capacity magazines", demonization of guns, Gangs, Media Bias | 2 Comments
Just a quick description of a liberal misnomer and a dash of opinion in the culture war regarding guns:
“Assault Weapon”-a liberal demonization of any semi-automatic firearm or self-feeding firearm that will fire one round with one pull of the trigger. Semi-automatic firearms are not the “bullet hoses” protrayed by the left. These guns have been around since before 1900. They are no more dangerous today than they were then. A real assault weapon is a select fire military tool that will discharge more than one round with one pull of the trigger. A shooter can move the selector switch to full-auto or set some weapons to fire a certain number of rounds with one trigger pull. These hand held machine guns or submachineguns are usually fired in short bursts, since longer bursts are harder to control and burn up ammunition. These multi-shot weapons have been regulated since the 1930’s and are almost never used in crimes. Liberals seem to deliberately confuse semi-automatic cousins of “ugly” military firearms with the full-auto military versions. Contrary to myth, it is not legal, easy, nor smart to try to convert a semi-auto firearm to full-auto.
Assault weapons and “assault weapons” are seldom “high-powered” rifles as portrayed by the left wing media. The current thinking for most modern military caliber firearms is that it is better to wound than kill an enemy soldier. A dead enemy soldier is left where he falls. A wounded enemy is likely to be cared for by his comrades, ergo, one or two more enemy combatants are taken out of the fight.
Many hunting rifles pack more killing power than “assault weapons.” Because of the smaller round and usually jacketed bullet fired by most “assault weapons,” one could argue that an “assault weapon” is a more humane way to stop a felonious attack than say a hunting rifle, shotgun, or even a high powered revolver.
Contrary to myth, semi-automatic “assault weapons” have not been the guns of choice of gangsters and drug dealers. In New Jersey, a few years ago, a police department had to borrow an “assault weapon” from a gun store for a photo op on the “dangerous, drug dealer gun.” They had to borrow this firearm, because their property room didn’t contain an “assault weapon” that had been taken from a drug dealer. Why not, if the gun in question was supposed to be so common “on the street?”
However, since gangster movies and the left wing media have been advertising these weapons for years as “gangsta” chic, they seem to be showing up more in the hands of gang members. Check out Stephen King’s movie, The Stand. All the good guys have bolt action hunting rifles. Most of the bad guys carry evil, ugly “assault weapons.”
In most cops and robbers shows, even the ones put on by people who say they support individual rights, virtually all of the cops pop virtually all of the bad guys with law enforcement issue semi-auto handguns. The bad guys all spray full-auto lead from “real” assault weapons. This not so subtle TV/movie prejudice against “ugly” guns fuels an ignorant public’s dread of these weapons. A semi-auto version of the dreaded AK 47 operates exactly the same way as an expensive Browning self-loading hunting rifle or a semi-auto shotgun costing thousands of dollars.
“High capacity magazines” are defined by liberals as anything that can hold more than 6 or 10 rounds. Magazine size is not really a public safety issue, since a skilled shooter can change magazines fairly quickly, so three, 10 round magazines almost equal a 30 round magazine. However, the goal of the anti-gun left, I believe, is to establish government control of magazine capacity, as in the first “Assault Weapons” Ban, then reduce the allowable magazine size to nothing. (Most semi-auto self-defense weapons have a magazine size of over 6 rounds.)
If you don’t own an “assault weapon,” you can’t spare your own firearm of choice by sacrificing these guns to the Liberal God of Gun Control. The British Fabian model calls for banning or “controlling” one type of gun at a time until commoners are effectively disarmed. Remember, if you own a bolt action rifle with a telescopic sight, you are in possession of a dreaded “sniper rifle.” If semi-autos are banned, “Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”
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