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For leftists, words mean whatever they want them to mean and if they want them to mean something else tomorrow, that’s permissible too.
A few weeks back I caught Geraldo Rivera carefully crafting a false image and transforming an “assault rifle” into a full auto machine gun.
He said something along the lines of “With a handgun you can only shoot a few times and then you need to stop and reload. With these automatic killing machines you spray, slap a new clip in and spray some more.”
This is the true disgrace of the media at large.
The thing is that they are destroying their own credibility with each passing day.
They’ll never admit that to themselves because they are too busy pushing an agenda.
My smartphone is a tri-corder, and my car is a shuttle craft.
Two nights in a row Diane Sawyer had video of a full auto AK47 while talking about assault weapons. Unintentional? Not likely.
Last night she was railing about the ‘high powered’ AR.
She doesn’t know the .223 is at to low end of hunting rounds? Maybe.
Seeing as how a semi-auto fires a single round per trigger pull, “semi-auto” and “single shot” can also be used interchangeably.
It’s good to know they are interchangeable now...I’ve always wanted an automatic.
So, is Obama shooting off EOs from a fully automatic or semi-auto weapon? Rate of fire suggests his weapon is set on fully automatic, with a belt feed, which means it’s been altered way beyond the original bolt action model he is authorized to use.
Indeed, the official government nomenclature for the 1911 and 1911A1 is, "Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911," and "Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1."
Originally, the term "automatic" was simply a shorthand annotation for, "automatic loading." While the terms may have been applied loosely and imprecisely, the function between a semi- and fully automatic firearm is clear. The terminology is simply being used to cloud the issue and agitate the ignorant.
Well hell. Don't stop there!
"Nuclear / Chemical Weapons of Mass Terrorism" may be used interchangeably with "Handgun", I suppose. Then you can justify this headline:
OBAMA WANTS TO BAN NUCLEAR / CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF MASS TERRORISM, NRA OPPOSES
This falls in line with anti-gun propaganda.
Josh Sugarmann
Violence Policy Center Director
“Assault weapons... are a new topic. The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons — anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun — can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”
-Josh Sugarmann, “Assault Weapons: Analysis, New Research and Legislation”, March 1989
“The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.”
-Josh Sugarman, former communications director for the Coalition Against Gun Violence
Although the M16 I carried in Viet Nam was capable of full auto, I don’t ever remember firing, even in a firefight, more than one round at a time. In auto, you can’t control where the rounds go after the first one, so why waste ammo.
If we let them control the vocabulary, we may as well give up right now.
I for one refuse to do so. I had a conversation with a friend who is a republican last night. She remarked to me that “nobody needs an assault weapon”. I asked her, “what is an assault weapon?”. She described an automatic weapon and was astounded when I explained that such weapons have been so tightly regulated since 1934, that there are very, very few in the hands of the public. I then defined a semi-automatic, and she remarked that her WW2 vet father’s target pistol would come under that definition.
She now gets it. We must not, under any circumstances, allow the leftists to define our vocabulary and the terms to define the freedoms we champion.