Assault rifles with hi-cap clips are making america great again

[jpak]

and again

and again


yup

[Hoyt]

1. It will only get worse. Myopic gun lovers -- and NRA -- say not many people kill with rifles now.

[jpak]

2. and the sick thing is - they will be flying off the gun shop shelves as soon as hey open today

yup

[Bucky]

3. I fucking hate the fact that I know that these were assault weapons, not assault rifles.

That's a technical distinction that, only in our fucked up society, matters in the debates about how we go about achieving reasonable gun control laws. I didn't want to learn this. I don't care, or rather I don't want to care about those differences. I've never shot any gun other than target practice and Keystone Cop like misadventure trying to hunt with a friend once. But because this entirely optional problem has become so prevalent and so persistent--thanks to the NRA and their paranoid drivel about "2nd Amendment remedies"--I've come to learn this trivial nonsense is kind of important.

[hack89]

4. That "trivial nonsense" is critically important if you want to pass effective laws

that will pass constitutional muster. The 1994 AWB shows what happens when you legislate from a position of perceived moral authority and technical ignorance.