Posted on 05/28/2021 4:33:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On May 2, in New York City, a Black woman attacked two Asian women with a hammer. On May 14, three people were slashed with knives within a 12-minute period on a New York subway. On March 17, a young woman was attacked with acid, burned, and blinded in New York. On May 18 in Florida, May 13 in Hawaii, and on March 12 in New York, men were set on fire. On May 21, a Jewish man in New York was attacked with pepper spray.
Antifa and BLM rioters have routinely, and as recently as this week, used metal pipes, Molotov cocktails, laser pointers, frozen water bottles, canned vegetables, mortar-like fireworks, eggs, glass bottles, chunks of concrete, bricks, and fire in their continuing attacks on first responders and random Americans. Pro-regressive pro-stateless-Arab protestors have also resorted to violence beyond words to attack Jews since the recent cease-fire in Israel. Not to mention fists and feet.
Biden’s nominee to head the ATF, David Chipman, wants to ban assault weapons? His position and statements would be laughable if they weren’t so darn dangerous. Besides, they are disingenuous. He carried an AR-15, just like the millions in circulation, as an ATF agent? Come on, man, it was fully automatic; there’s no comparison.
Believing, and encouraging others to believe, that banning semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines, regardless of their capacity, will make America safer has no basis in fact. Paper targets will be safer. Varmints will be safer. Banning such weapons may harm some small business owners who own gun shops and shooting ranges, as well as some larger manufacturers of ammunition, reloading supplies, and firearms.
Why not simply believe the government’s own statistics on weapons of choice? The FBI murder stats for 2018 show there were 14,123 murder victims in the US.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Furthermore, George Washington (!) contemplated a large purchase of Puckle Guns, high-capacity large-caliber rapid-fire weapons - while he declined due to production capacity limitations, he was familiar with the concept.
Why do people keep thinking gun control is about crime?
Gun control is about protecting bureaucrats and politicians.
If someone brings a gun to a “gun-free zone” who’s going to stop them? Oh that’s right. Someone else with a gun.
The author of this piece takes the gun-grabber's obvious lie at face value. No one really thinks that "... banning semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines, regardless of their capacity, will make America safer ..."
That is obviously absurd, meant only to sugar-coat their true intentions for the gullible.
They want freedom loving Americans dead, or enslaved.
The only people made safer by their criminal gun grabbing would be our new would-be overlords.
I saw we tell em all to drop dead.
Start executing in front of city hall. Build a multi drop gallows. Get 6 or more at a time.
Indeed. That weapon was available in round bullet (for Christians) and square bullets (for non-Christians) too.
Not entirely sure any of those things were ever actually fired..
He'd have done better copying the wonderful (and fragile) Ferguson Rifle, the .65 caliber breechloading fires-six-times-a-minute beauty.
I hesitate to brag, but I built one and it works very well, is accurate - and a bear to clean afterward!
Nifty! Reminds me to build a Revolution-era kit with my kids ASAP.
Don’t forget the Girandoni Rifle, which Thomas Jefferson gave 2 of to Lewis & Clark. In modern terms, it was a .45 caliber semi-automatic with 22-round magazine. Proved rather effective in persuading natives to not attack.
Point is: yes, the Founding Fathers were aware of rapid-fire high-capacity semi-automatic rifles. They hadn’t been optimized like the AR15, but concept was well apparent.
Just ban New York.
huh?
Thanks for that. I had never heard of Puckle Guns before. Very interesting.
“huh?” what?
Thread is about banning assault weapons.
Those wanting to ban usually appeal to the ignorance of not knowing the 2nd Amendment was written when high-capacity rapid-fire semi-automatic* weapons WERE known to those founding the country and writing the Constitution. “George Washington didn’t imagine AR15s!” they cry, unaware he looked into buying a large quantity of comparable rifles. “Thomas Jefferson would never have consented to AR15s!” they cry, unaware he gave Lewis & Clark something functionally similar. Sure, such was not optimized to the point Armalite achieved, but the basic concept was not surprising.
Side discussion briefly digressed into other guns of the era.
What’s to “huh?”?
It would work. You just have to remember that the goal is not actually to prevent “gun violence.”
Define “assault weapons,” MeeIdiot, kkthx.
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