After 30 Years Of Lies, NY Times Admits “Assault Weapons Are A Myth”

Bearing Arms via Ace of Spades ^ | Sept 13, 2014 | Bob Owens

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In a stunning op-ed released Friday, the NY Times finally admitted that “assault weapons” are a made-up political term fabricated by anti-gun Democrats.

Op-ed writer Lois Beckett also admitted that once the term was manufactured and used to outlaw a class of weapons that dishonest anti-gun Democrats had used to con an entire nation, nothing happened .

It was much the same in the early 1990s when Democrats created and then banned a category of guns they called “assault weapons.” America was then suffering from a spike in gun crime and it seemed like a problem threatening everyone. Gun murders each year had been climbing: 11,000, then 13,000, then 17,000.

Democrats decided to push for a ban of what seemed like the most dangerous guns in America: assault weapons, which were presented by the media as the gun of choice for drug dealers and criminals, and which many in law enforcement wanted to get off the streets.

This politically defined category of guns — a selection of rifles, shotguns and handguns with “military-style” features — only figured in about 2 percent of gun crimes nationwide before the ban.

[MrB]

“frightening to a liberal” =>

could be used to defend oneself from something a liberal wants to impose on you through government.

[MrB]

And some are ignorant, parroting stuff they heard so that they appear smart.

Case in point: A libinlaw was decrying people possessing “semi-automatic” guns. I asked him to describe a “semi-automatic” gun. He admitted he had no idea. I was actually impressed with his honesty.

I educated him on semi-auto vs select fire, and told him he was being intentionally deceived into convoluting the two concepts. Didn’t convince him to not be anti-gun, because it’s not the functionality of the gun that he opposed. But I did educate him a bit.