Posted on 09/21/2019 1:50:12 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Democrat presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke responded to those who want to keep their AR-15s by asking why they do not pursue ownership of a bazooka as well.
O’Rourke’s comment came after a gun-totting mother in Aurora, Colorado, told him that he was not taking her guns.
O’Rourke later took to Twitter and wrote, “A woman in CO told me ‘hell no’ she won’t give back her AR-15. I listened, but by her logic: Why shouldn’t you be allowed to have a bazooka or a tank?”
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(With that hair, he looks a little like a young Donald Trump!) :-)
After reading your interesting post, I found a picture of one of those bazooka musical instruments, and a youtube video of another guy playing one. It looks a little like a plumbing plunger! (Not quite a sax, eh?)
 Bazooka Music Video |
Why not a bazooka?
Better yet, why not a mortar, ATGM, MANPAD, or automatic grenade launcher?
“Pretty Bobbi” O’Rourke is TOO STUPID to KNOW that civilians CAN lawfully own a bazooka IF the 200.oo TAX is paid to the US Treasury & the weapon is registered.
(A civilian can also own a jet fighter, mortar, tank, APC, howitzer & most other military weapon IF you have the cash to buy it & comply with the relevant US laws.)
When you are TERMINALLY IGNORANT on firearms laws, as O’Rourke is, it’s really GOOD idea to keep your BIG mouth tightly shut.
Yours, TMN78247
Ah yes my beloved Mk-19.
Thank you, Beto. An excellent idea. Especially when you and your whelps come for our guns. You can have our guns when they pry them from your cold, dead hands.
[It’s for the chil’run.]
I love helping the chilruns.
There was a lady at my work 15 years ago or so. She was stealing office supplies. For the chilruns for back-to-school.
Urban area. Yes.
How much does the ammo cost?
You’re right. The founders never sought a limit on the amount of firepower The People could possess. They wanted us to have the skill, courage and determination to band together and destroy threats as necessary. The government wasn’t even supposed to have an army or weapons for that matter.
But we grew soft and let others protect us and ceded a lot of our sovereignty in the process.
I would rather have a working Panzerfaust. Simple to use and can take down an armored car.
Credo quia adsurdum
Right on.
Well said and you can also own a civil war cannon, and shoot it when you please.
I, too, would like a bazooka.
:)
When I was a kid you could buy a War Surplus German anti-tank rifle from an Ad in the back of a magazine for $179. It included ten rounds of ammunition and an extra magazine.
The ignorance on that topic is astounding and common. The truth of the matter is that we could legally own such things, as we do have legislatures and are capable of developing and making policies and implementing systems. Our forefathers who started the U.S.A. collectively and securely kept such weapons in the form of cannon.
But there is a lack of collective determination to organize enough for funding, staying ahead of obsolescence, adequate security (respecting the rights of neighbors) and employing enough men of needed levels of competence in charge of security and maintenance. Anti-tank weapons and tanks are essentially useless if obsolete and worse than useless if not properly secured. The costs for our military forces for doing the same are enormous.
So the answer is that Robert Francis O’Rourke’s question is beside the point. It’s a red herring. The truth of the matter is that we don’t want such weapons, because they are not feasible.
Modern sporting rifles don’t cause nearly as many deaths of innocent people as any one of many other instruments including bare hands and feet. That addresses the concern pretended by Robert Francis O’Rourke.
You use to be able to get a Letter of Marque to outfit a ship with canons and weapons of war. Maybe in the fight to protect tankers in the Persian Gulf we should return to the days of Privateers. So yes, you use to be able (and the Constitution refers to) powerful weapons.
Tanks are regularly available at auctions.
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