@Strandjunker Only in the US of BS-A..
At this point the world kinda thinks laws in the US are made against the people instead of for
If you think of politics in terms of sadism, it becomes a little clearer.
@Strandjunker Nobody is saying the government should buy the mass shooter an assault weapon.
Rights in the American sense are negative - things that society cannot do to you. Taking away your assault weapon was included in that list, because the British tried to do just that and it kicked off the American Revolution.
Yes there should be subsidized health care for the poor, but that is not a "right" in the constitutional sense.
@Catawu @Strandjunker Oh I'm going to take a dump on that particular timeline whenever and wherever it appears.
The Minutemen who showed up at Lexington and Concord were volunteers with their own weapons.
However, most of the gunpowder was kept in a public magazine so peoples' houses did not blow up.
The Redcoats arrived to confiscate that, there was a standoff, and the rest is history.
There was no list of people who had that right. All able bodied men were potential members of the militia.
What's an "assault weapon"? Not a rhetorical question.
In the parlance of the gun debate
and bear in mind that includes people who are gun experts as well as not, an "assault rifle" is one which allows the user to fire multiple shots at multiple targets before targets have time to react.
Otherwise, you get into inane arguments about magazine capacity, range, reload mechanism, demons in the end of the barrel...that kind of inane gaslighting.
Words have meanings.
An assault rifle , by definition, has a selector switch that can select for full automatic. If a weapon cannot fire full automatic it is not an assault rifle. It's something else.
I have a 12 Gauge pump action shotgun which allows the user to fire multiple shots at multiple targets before targets have time to react. It's not an assault rifle. It's a much different device.
I've never shot anyone with it. I never needed to. I popped a trunk lid once and asked if they *wanted* trouble. That was enough. They didn't.
I didn't even have to brandish it. They didn't know what was in there. Just the possibility was sufficient. That's the power of firearms.
Aaah....and you went there...
The demons at the end of the barrel are only relevant in cases where holy emperor decreed heretics as the valid targets only.
(The gaslighting bit of my comment)
That's not gaslighting. That's the truth of the matter. Gaslight, by definition, means a very specific form of lying. I didn't lie at al. I told the truth. Ergo, it's not gaslighting.
Accusing me of something I didn't do, on the other hand, *is* a lie. Stop lying about me. Stop lying about guns. Stop lying about the English language. Words really do have meanings.
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