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Why does anyone need an "Assault Rifle"?
woofer2425 | woofer2425

Posted on 12/18/2012 12:47:32 PM PST by woofer2425

Bob Beckel on Fox news asked yesterday, "Why does anyone need an "assault rifle"?

I thought...Why does anyone need a 900 HP muscle car?...they could drive an East German wondercar like the Trabant or a Yaris or some other meager means of transport which aren't so "wasteful and dangerous". Why is there 1st class seating on airliners? Why are there multi CPU, overclocked computers when a plain vanilla Dell would be adequate?

I know you could come up with many more examples like this.

There are many choices we have the privledge to make because we live in this wonderful country. Some of the choices are wasteful, frivolous or dangerous to some. One of the choices we have is the weapon we choose. Whether it's for sport or protection...it's our choice...like many things in our life. You know...."assault weapons" are not Automatic weapons...they are the same mechanically as some hunting rifles with just a change in the stock design...with maybe a pistol grip added. They look more dangerous to these communists in the house and senate so they want to get rid of them. Most don't know a thing about firearms.

We have, and enjoy owning all types of guns because we are Americans and have freedom of choice. It would be wrong to take guns away from good and lawful people. You know the criminals won't give up there's. This is just another lie from the left.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; beckel; colddeadhands; democrats; guncontrol; newtown; secondamendment; tyranny
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To: woofer2425

Why does Beckel need hookers?


141 posted on 12/18/2012 3:19:54 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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To: humblegunner
Because they are cool and fun to shoot.

You don't say? I'm going to have to look into that.

I'm an old fart and can't run away from danger or hide as quickly as I used to, so may need to get myself some better defensive weaponry.

142 posted on 12/18/2012 3:22:29 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: woofer2425

Why does anyone need pornography?


143 posted on 12/18/2012 3:24:45 PM PST by AppyPappy (You never see a masscre at a gun show.)
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To: smokingfrog
I'm going to have to look into that.

Just for the first time? ;-)

144 posted on 12/18/2012 3:29:32 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: woofer2425

To defend my rights against a tyrannical government.

That’s why.


145 posted on 12/18/2012 3:31:04 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: humblegunner
It throws out fireballs and has a bayonnet.. Have you tried roasting marshmallows yet?
146 posted on 12/18/2012 3:31:46 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: woofer2425

Why does a Progressive need to live?


147 posted on 12/18/2012 3:32:57 PM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: humblegunner

Thanks for the ping gunner, it’s going to get interesting, that’s for sure. I guess getting that 10 pack of Pmags last month wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

That mosin looks sweet. And like you said, a nice slice of history.


148 posted on 12/18/2012 3:41:22 PM PST by davetex (Sick of moochers)
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To: woofer2425
Next thing you know, the Food Nazis will want to ban this "weapon":


149 posted on 12/18/2012 3:48:31 PM PST by mikrofon (Don't toss it!)
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To: Last Dakotan

Absolutely no need I can think of.


150 posted on 12/18/2012 3:51:14 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: humblegunner

Trying to get over my fear of guns. I think I’m starting to make some headway.


151 posted on 12/18/2012 3:52:14 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: woofer2425
There are persons in this world that bitterly cling to their definition of Assault Rifle like it were their Bible.
The term coined by Hitler is Diane Feinstein, Chuckie Schmuckers and the Left’s mantra.
Certainly the Flintlock Musket and the “Kentucky Rifle” of the American Revolution were the “Assault Weapons” of their day. So was Mauser, Enfield SMLE, and the Springfield of WWI. Technology progresses that doesn’t mean that there should be controls on what is an “Assault Weapon”. Fully automatic weapons have been banned since 1934 in America. No weapons with selective fire are sold across the counter of any Gun Shop without the specific permission of the BATFE.
152 posted on 12/18/2012 3:54:55 PM PST by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: smokingfrog

Fear of guns???????? I would never have thought that about you.


153 posted on 12/18/2012 3:55:48 PM PST by Ditter
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To: woofer2425
Why does anyone need an "Assault Rifle"?

In the event commie pukes decide we "don't need" an assault rifle.

154 posted on 12/18/2012 4:00:35 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: woofer2425

What ticks me off more than anything is that we can never get to the real truth, you know, the one that Americans fear the most and nobody wants to acknowledge on TV or anywhere else.

The truth is that Americans know the communists have taken over, they are called progressives and they hate the US Constitution. People want these guns because they know tyranny is coming by way of the government. Which is the reason that the 2nd amendment is a Constitutional right.

It was to refresh the tree of liberty lest a tyrannical government come into being. The revolution redux.

Citizens do not possess the arms that their taxes have paid for that the illegitimate government has accrued by way of. Their only hope are weapons such as these. You also know that those who would own these weapons would never, and would not, use them lightly.

More have purchased these weapons since Obama came into being. The reason is because they know he does not have any respect for liberty or for the Constitution.


155 posted on 12/18/2012 4:10:07 PM PST by dforest
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To: CatherineofAragon

Gretchen needs to be sent home for a time. That woman is acting totally insane.

She has become overbearing wih her counterparts and acts like a kook most of the time.


156 posted on 12/18/2012 4:12:35 PM PST by dforest
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To: woofer2425

As of today I refuse to watch The Five because of Bob and his side kick Dana Perino, Dana is a RINO leaning left and Bob is stuck in the 50’s fighting scab laborer’s. Political Correctness at it’s best. The only one on fox left for me is Greta.


157 posted on 12/18/2012 4:16:14 PM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; humblegunner

Of course. Stacked on the bayonet, they crisp up right nice after a few fireballs.


158 posted on 12/18/2012 4:16:14 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: woofer2425

people who own rifles don’t call them assault rifles.

i call them my self defense rifle, or my protection from big brother rifle.


159 posted on 12/18/2012 4:29:37 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: dforest

I can’t stand to listen to her anymore.

If I recall, even Brian Kilmeade said something stupid about gun ownership the other day, but I can’t remember the exact remark. It was along the same lines as Gretchen’s comment.


160 posted on 12/18/2012 4:32:08 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
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