Sad and maddening, but not surprising. These starry-eyed kids have been brainwashed into believing that something they can't even describe or define is the cause of tragedies.
Today my dad called and his sister took him to mass and during and after mass the priest talked about “assault weapons”. He asked what they meant and exactly what weapons they meant. They didn’t know. They pressed him that he should ask me because they know I have plenty of “ assault weapons” .
He told them when he went to Vietnam he carried a bar, and he considered it an assault weapon but that I didn’t have a bar so he didn’t know what they were talking about
So the Catholic Church is pushing this ******** also
Not surprising. It reminds me of the old bit on the man show where they had woman lining up to sign a petition to end womens suffrage. Too many people are more focussed on virtue signaling than educating themselves and coming to informed opinions. It's sad what people will get behind or even sign their name to in ignorance.
Penn and Teller had a show on Showtime called “********.” In one episode they showed that people, especially the activist type would sign a petition to ban water.
Agree 100% that this is the problem and is amplified by most of the media and supported financially (I suspect) by a variety of anti-liberty organizations. What's more interesting to me is an effective rhetorical strategy to combat it. I have had some success with an approach that briefly summarizes what the founders had in mind at the time the U.S. was formed, the idea of negative rights and the need for protections from government, etc. Also, sometimes helps to use analogies where the subject is something of importance to the individual speaking with me, e.g. freedom to have an abortion, freedom to marry the spouse of one's choice, etc. But, at best, I'm persuading a handful of people. What's needed is something persuasive on a large scale. Thoughts?
This reminds me of that moron in the MD hat above. “I don’t need no combat rifle” how much you wanna bet he’s using a Remington 700, still used in several police and used to be used in military sniper roles.
An “assault weapon” are just “things I don’t own that I don’t want others to own”. Like when the list of weapons for the Clinton AWB ban were literally just randomly picked from a catalog by staffers, just the ones that looked scary.