Posted on 09/16/2003 6:00:50 AM PDT by Joe Brower
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence: "KILLING MACHINES"
The "Coalition to Stop Gun Violence" has just published a 13-page screed titled "Killing Machines", which purports to be about all the horrible evils of so-called "assault weapons". With the sunset of the 1994 "assault weapons" ban coming up in a year, it's no surprise that this sort of propaganda would be surfacing, and it this document is any indication, the anti-gunners are pulling out all the stops to maintain their fear-mongering grip on the minds of "average" Americans.
Those of us who know the truth of this matter need to start preparing, and an excellent way to start would be to get a copy of this "report", read it, and start practicing your refutation talking points. Remember, the rights you save will be your own! And as the old saw goes, by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Links for a couple of good documents with counter-points are included later in this message. Let's move like we have a purpose, people! The main link is here, although I also have a copy of this propaganda on my website for those of you who don't wish to give the CSGV website the hits. All of these documents are in PDF format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat to read/print them:
THEIRS (Thanks to Tom Laye of the CA-firearms list for finding this.)
The "Violence Policy Center" has an even more detailed bit of agitprop on their website, and unfortunately it is _not_ in PDF format.
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Here are a couple of documents that provide some good counter-arguments to this freedom-hating propaganda.
There is also a copy of Gun Facts 3.3 on my website HERE.
Another good doc full of powerful moral arguments is John Ross' "Give it to them straight".
Please feel free to forward this message to any other mail-lists or web forums as you deem fit. Knowledge is power.
Yours in Liberty,
Joe Brower
Haven't they learned anything from history?
The ones in charge have learned real well. The average Democrat (and Republican too apparently to look at the drooling Republican idiots who see nothing wrong with Geo Bush endorsing gun control) is too stupid to ever make the connection.
A noteworthy corollary to this question would be "With all it's military superiority in having tanks, artillery, aircraft, ships, etc., why is the federal government and it's cronies so obsessed with taking away simple small arms from the law-abiding citizenry?"
As to the need for a machinegun or not. Everything I may ever need in the "full auto" (real assult weapon) is carried by the little PC hired SWAT cop down the street. She keeps it all oiled, clean and zeroed for me 24 and 7 with lots of fresh and free ammo. Anything else I may ever "need" is at Wal-Mart in household section.
Aside from this we still have the Soap, Ballot and Jury box to empty before we ever get to the Ammo box. As long as hard machines are driven by soft skin humans a 22 long rifle cartirdge has a purpose IMHO. One of favorite uses of the .22 is by the IDF who like to kneecap the PLO members of the Internation Ernest T. Bass rock chuckers club. They will have all the neat and wild exotic gear in the world yet they profit and gain more with the 10-22 ruger and one of my favorite little plinkers a beretta 70 or 71S which was/is a mossad kewl tewl.
Stay Safe Joe !
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
any gun with the ability to accept a detachable magazine satisfies the high capacity component of the assault weapon definition.any firearm that possesses control-enhancing features satisfies the second prong of the assault weapon definition.
In the absence of a protruding, forward handgrip, a shooter could use the nonshooting hand to control an assault weapon by holding directly onto the barrel. However, the discharge of ammunition generates tremendous heat; during rapid discharge, the barrel quickly becomes too hot to handle. On some assault weapons, the barrel is encased in a heat-dissipating shroud that allows the shooter to hold on without getting burned. On other assault weapons, an insulating forward stock, which may be sculpted to accommodate the hand, functions as a second grip.
Pay particular attention to the parts I have put in bold. This could (and will be) interpreted to mean ANY rifle that has ANY type of stock for the non-trigger hand that could "insulate" your hand against the heat of the barrel. Remember those 20 round mags that the Germans made for trench warfare in WWI for bolt action Mausers? According to them, that 80 year old bolt action Mauser is now an assault weapon.
And what really disgusts me are the people with the $8000 custom made trap guns who peer down their noses and wonder what anyone needs with an "assault weapon". HELLO! The Second Amendment wasn't written to ensure that you could shoot at brightly colored clay targets!
Exactly. I am not so concerned about what I am armed with, as much as I am my ability to use it well. And access to, or posession of, sufficient ammunition.
To that, I would add: "Now that we have DNA technology we should require a national date base of the DNA of every citizen and resident in the name of "security". If it will save just* one life, won't it be worth it?" (/sarcasm)
*The word "just", when used has an adverb, as always been a red flag to me. Whether written or spoken, its use is meant to diminish the perception of the request to the advantage of the speaker; "Could you just loan me a hundred dollars?" The word just, in this sentence, is used to make a hundred dollars sound like less than a hundred dollars. The left, when addressing what it perceives to be an unsophisticated audience, will use the word "just" to avoid any serious objection to proposals that will limit liberty, cost taxpayers, or enrich the left politically.
We don't want to take away your guns, we JUST want to register them, so we (?) know where they are.
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