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linuxman

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17. Way to miss the entire point.

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #16)

Thu Feb 15, 2018, 02:50 AM

Feb 2018

Oh well, that settles it I guess. Dubya has been vindicated. WMDs were found all over Iraq. Hell, every Iraqi soldier had one. How about that?

Words mean things, regardless of your desire to re-purpose them for sensationalism.

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ATTENTION: Any Device designed ... SPECIFICALLY... to kill massive amounts of humans is a WMD !!! [View all] uponit7771 Feb 2018 OP

Gun free zones are always in the buildings that politicians sit in to pass laws allowing guns Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #1

+1 uponit7771 Feb 2018 #2

but...it's not the rifle, it's capacity! I NEED THEM FOR COYOTES! Skittles Feb 2018 #3

+1, I've heard all their excuses but this one stops them dead in their tracks. They ... KNOW ... the uponit7771 Feb 2018 #4

It is the capacity that's the problem NickB79 Feb 2018 #21

The counter argument would be that guns aren't designed soley to kill large number of people mythology Feb 2018 #5

True, the device the young man had ... IS... designed SPECIFICALLY to kill massive amounts of humans uponit7771 Feb 2018 #6

It'd be on you to prove they were designed for that express purpose then, right? linuxman Feb 2018 #7

No, even Gumpers understand the device the young man used is modeled after a device used to kill ... uponit7771 Feb 2018 #8

That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. linuxman Feb 2018 #9

Facts aren't bad, normalizing WMD use by general public is though uponit7771 Feb 2018 #10

Well you certainly feel free to create your own "facts" linuxman Feb 2018 #11

Fact not in dispute, the device the young man used today was modeled after and designed to kill ... uponit7771 Feb 2018 #12

No, your assertion that the rifle it was modeled after linuxman Feb 2018 #13

So your position is the device is NOT designed to kill massive amounts of people... uponit7771 Feb 2018 #14

Yep. But just not due to that. linuxman Feb 2018 #15

I'm referring to the devices design not its efficacy on a battle field. Seeing... uponit7771 Feb 2018 #16

Way to miss the entire point. linuxman Feb 2018 #17

So does context, in a non battlefield setting that device is a WMD. On the battle field ... uponit7771 Feb 2018 #18

WOW!!! Did you see this? Squinch Feb 2018 #19

I just heard a veteran of war talking about the purpose of assault rifles: Vinca Feb 2018 #20