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In reply to the discussion: Murdoch calls for automatic weapons ban [View all]caseymoz
(5,763 posts)53. Really? What's the real world consequences here?
Are you afraid they're going to ban automatic weapons, again? Or are they calling them automatic because then everyone knows it really means semi-automatic, and so will ban everything except muskets. (Yes, I know that's technically incorrect. It's called a joke. Don't correct me. Then again, when Founders wrote he Second Amendment, they had muskets in mind.)
Really, is your entire fear that nobody is going to employ a researcher and a proofreader before Congress makes some law about it? A step we're not even near yet? There's no such thing as informal discussion?
Do you insist on an asshole being called a rectum or anus just because, technically speaking, there''s no donkey involved? I would think that you do. Think of all the confusion this causes in real life!
The assault weapons ban failed? Certainly news to me. There have certainly been a lot of spree shootings, and far more serious ones, since it came off the books. And you're also acting like what would fix it to your satisfaction would be correct terminology, when really, I sense your objection is that there's any regulation at all. So, if you could obstruct or confuse the argument with semantics, you would, and do.
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Automatic weapons were banned by law during Clinton Administration, but only until...
Left Coast2020
Dec 2012
#24
Murdoch, Romney and those of that ilk will still have weapons - this is a law for the common folk
DeschutesRiver
Dec 2012
#86
Automatics have been very, very strictly regulated in the US for something like 80 years, no? (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#5
When they've lost Rupert Murdoch, I think the gun-nuts are in serious trouble.
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#7
This twits corporations promote the NRA and make money off of salacious stories of death.
Lint Head
Dec 2012
#8
Really who cares what this idiot says. He owns a company that encourages weapons. If he really
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#9
Yeah, you wouldn't want to accidentally read the single biggest proponent of gun control in the
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#50
I'll just take that as an admission that you cannot refute the facts I cited.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#55
That link shows Sugarmann acknowledging that confusion between semi and full auto is beneficial to
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#89
He's about 80 years too late since automatic weapons have been illegal since 1934
tularetom
Dec 2012
#21
Your problem is that you don't know the simple industry standard terms but still want to use them.
ManiacJoe
Dec 2012
#62
The entire debate would actually be over already if the 2nd amendment itself was written to be
cstanleytech
Dec 2012
#34
That would be dangerous. It might lead to a clarification on "person" or "people"
valerief
Dec 2012
#36
Firearms are classified in the eyes of the court as very different from Destructive Devices.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#47
But there were no fully automatic weapons back in 1787 when the Constitution was written
cstanleytech
Dec 2012
#59
Problem with that is we are discussing the 2nd amendment to the Constitution
cstanleytech
Dec 2012
#75
You are using a line of logic that has been used to try and proscribe certain free speech
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#76
I believe we are just going to have to agree that we disagree as I still believe
cstanleytech
Dec 2012
#79
"You're cluttering and obstructing discussion and impugning other people's right to free speech"
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#87
=Sorry, it doesn't solve the problem. Reframe as Terror & deal with all OUTSIDE STREET guns.
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#52
He seems unaware that AUTOMATIC weapons have been illegal in the US since that whole Al Capone stuff
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#78