"War profiteering"? Really? Well, no, but it amounts to the same thing, doesn't it? No, it doesn't.
These are weapons designed for the rapid spray-shooting of multiple enemy soldiers in wartime, not homeland civilians living in peace.
"Rapid spray-shooting"? I think it's a fair bet that no one capable of typing this was ever closer to the military than a protest march. Spray-shooting. How, exactly, does one "spray-shoot" with a semiautomatic firearm? Or any firearm, for that matter?
An ad for an armor-piercing handgun shows an embattled infantryman...
A what? An "armor-piercing handgun"? Sure - walk up to the counter of any gun store and ask for an "armor-piercing handgun" and see what sort of looks you get.
they cause more harm to innocent victims than to fantasized malefactors.
"Fantasized malefactors"? Would that be the Islamic terrorist shooters that just killed 14 in California? The author strains not to use the "I" word here, but suddenly a few paragraphs later they aren't so "fantasized":
Something like it is likely to be in the hands of the next mass shooter, whatever the killer's obsession.
That the victims of that "obsession", Islamic terror - there, I've said it, it didn't hurt a bit - that those victims might have a desire to have "something like it" in their own hands when the murderers come a-knocking appears to have escaped the lurid imagination of the copywriter. This is not fantasy-mongering, and the people purchasing these firearms are not playing games.
I suppose we shouldn't expect much better when the Times turns its collective hand to crude propaganda, a thing that has happened far too much of late. But it doesn't really matter. Anyone with enough knowledge in the field even to shop for such an item will read this sort of thing and laugh.
“I suppose we shouldn’t expect much better when the Times turns its collective hand to crude propaganda, a thing that has happened far too much of late. But it doesn’t really matter. Anyone with enough knowledge in the field even to shop for such an item will read this sort of thing and laugh. “
It is a sign of desperation. Their more subtle, mind altering “manufacturing of consent” does not work anymore. They are circling the drain, and their screams of unbelief are lovely to the ears.
I pray they all find Jesus, and turn their lives around. Working hard to destroy Western Civilization is no way to go through life.