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In reply to the discussion: My Case Against Assault Weapons (cross post from the other group) [View all]benEzra
(12,148 posts)21. Yep. I thought this post over there was ironic in that vein...
Last edited Mon Jun 29, 2015, 02:03 PM - Edit history (1)
"Another well worn tactic is to run down the rabbit hole of minutea about guns getting into the tiny details of ballistics, terminology and definitions until the whole issue being discussed is lost. "
Ironic when the whole issue being discussed in that thread is a technical examination of why AR-15's are supposedly too powerful for civilian use.
The OP makes technical claims about .223 being more powerful than "conventional" rifles, which based on readily available and incontrovertible sources, is exactly backwards. Yet for them to open their minds enough to even question that claim, and take 30 seconds to test it against objective facts they can easily access themselves (is a .223 really more powerful than a deer rifle?), is like asking a hardcore creationist to read a paragraph on radiometric dating or consider the implications of a feathered coelurosaur.
They can't even go so far as to say "I don't like people owning AR-15's, but claiming they are super powerful is a stupid argument to use", because to question that claim would be to allow other pesky questions in. Like "are they really that rarely misused?", or "how are they really that different from a Mini-14?", or the ultimate badthink, "does going after .223 rifles actually make sense from a violence prevention standpoint?"
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My Case Against Assault Weapons (cross post from the other group) [View all]
Duckhunter935
Jun 2015
OP
If the poster truly believed what he wrote he'd be working to disarm the police, not the populace.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2015
#2
That has to be one of best fiskings I have ever seen. All I can say is:
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2015
#7
Gee, I guess all of those 35ton tracked vehicles with turrets that I work on.
oneshooter
Jun 2015
#8
Interesting that they not only have to be protected from seeing a dissenting position...
benEzra
Jun 2015
#15
There's an M.C. Escher lithograph that I think illustrates the mindset:
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2015
#23