Posted on 12/14/2015 6:36:23 AM PST by marktwain
How the mighty have fallen. A soldier, in uniform, with a pack and a clearly fake gun causes an entire section of Australian civilization to go into the "vapors".
Throughout most of the rest of the world, there would hardly be a comment. Seeing soldiers on exercises is common and only slightly noteworthy.
Notice that this soldier did nothing that was even remotely threatening, except exist. He did not fire blanks. He never pointed the crude, welded metal sections, vaguely resembling a rifle, at anyone. We (in the United States) would be in the same place if it were not for Second Amendment supporters and Open Carry
activists.
I recall a somewhat similar incident about two decades ago, at the height of the disarmament movement in America. Two soldiers were conducting a physical training exercise in Phoenix, Arizona. They were jogging down the sidewalk in uniform. The replica rifles were molded of plastic, and looked fairly realistic from a distance of a few yards. They were arrested and charged with disturbing the peace. No schools or day care institutions were shut down. Fortunately, Second Amendment supporters and open carry activists ended this sort of idiotic, programmed terror reaction before it became common in the United States.
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Shades of 1984.
Quick! Where is my fainting couch?
Coming to a city near you. When a kid can’t even eat a pop tart with out someone going “bonkers”, thinking the pop tart resembles a firearm, every one of us should be concerned how our nation has been so brainwashed against firearms.
The same way the little snowflakes start screaming "Trigger! Trigger!" at the sight of the Confederate flag, or a Poptart in the shape of Florida.
That reaction has simply shifted to the target du jour.
The word “city” tells it all, Jefferson was right.
I will never forget the reaction of the lovely Mrs Tupelo after we moved to Sonoran Desert upon seeing a guy carrying a hogleg in Home Depot.
Quote: “AWLRIGHT!”
It actually does look a little like the Ares folding SMG.
It “looks a little” like a Steyr AUG as well.
It has a sort of stock, a sort of barrel, a sort of pistol grip...
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