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Critics Slam Lindsey Graham for Posting Video Of Himself Shooting an Assault Weapon on Heels of MassacresBy Tommy ChristopherApr 2nd, 2021, 9:07 am
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham touched off a fierce backlash from critics when he posted a video of himself shooting an AR-15 on the heels of high-profile gun massacres in Georgia, Colorado, and California.
Last week, Graham explained that he owns an AR-15 because in the case of a natural disaster, gangs will leave him alone. And on Thursday, he attempted to spread the word about his skill by posting a video in which he fires 10 shots in 16 seconds at a shooting range, captioned with the false claim that In 1994, there was an Assault Weapons Ban the evidence indicates that there was really no change at all in crime because the crooks are going to get a gun!
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Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed in the Parkland massacre, wrote Today, @LindseyGrahamSC showed off with the weapon used to kill my daughter and the weapon of choice for mass murderers. Today, Lindsey will cost lives. Lindsey, all future mass murderers are paying attention to you and you just showed them what to use.
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jmbar2
(4,910 posts)luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)Couldnt wait to read that article and was sooooo disappointed.
intrepidity
(7,339 posts)I thought it might be a lagging April Fools post
intrepidity
(7,339 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)Lindsey isn't wearing heels
speak easy
(9,328 posts)Oh, I read it wrong.
Botany
(70,594 posts)speak easy
(9,328 posts)but I have a suspicion it's not Lindsey
Bristlecone
(10,135 posts)Botany
(70,594 posts)Graham, "In 1994, there was an Assault Weapons Ban the evidence indicates that there was really no change
at all in crime."
krispos42
(49,445 posts)"Assault weapon" is an arbitrary definition of combinations of external features on semiautomatic rifles.
Take off one or two of the external features, it's no longer an assault weapon.
If a rifle is semiautomatic and feeds from a detachable magazine, per the 1993 ban, it legally could have one feature from this list:
Pistol grip
Folding or collapsable buttstock
Bayonet mount
Muzzle-flash reducer
Attachment for firing rifle grenades
Two or more features= assault weapon.
Zero or one feature= not an assault weapon.
All the people screaming about how we need to ban assault weapons are really screaming about banning protruding pistol grips, bayonet mounts, folding buttocks, and flash hiders.
-misanthroptimist
(821 posts)Slick, Lindsey. Now, how did the AWB affect mass shootings? I ask because that was its actual purpose. Never mind, found the answer myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Mass_shootings
I guess we know why Lindsey used "crime" instead of "mass shootings." Pretty slimy.
Bev54
(10,074 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,816 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)... hiding out with the rest of the 82 Chair Borne gunner crew?!
Cowards
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)If someone made him the target of one of those American-as-apple-pie assault weapons.
*I think we all know he's shooting blanks*