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crickets's JournalIt's because technically the AR-15 is not classified as an assault rifle,
and that is because it is 'only' semi-automatic. This is solely due to the trigger mechanism. The AR-15 is not automatic; that means it requires that you pull the trigger each time you want to fire. Well, that is unless you get a bump stock.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ar15s-are-basically-assau_b_10469112
WaPo, 2018:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/02/15/4-basic-questions-about-the-ar-15/
no paywall: https://archive.ph/fU3fq
It's all semantics. The gun is just as deadly or easily modified to be so, but gun folks are very touchy about making the distinction. The 'AR' stands for ArmaLite, the name of the company that manufactures it, and one of the reasons it's so popular is because it's the closest civilian version of the M-16 used by the US Army. Lovely.
Of course they did.
Also mentioned in the article, they slapped a 'TM' next to Juneteenth on the ice cream label.
The mindset involved in trying to do that is so warped.
Politics Girl: "Why are our lives so much less important than your weapons?"
Fantastic rant, so on point:
https://twitter.com/IAmPoliticsGirl/status/1529213842697244672
Reposting this because I don’t know what else to say. This isn’t freedom America. This is a nightmare. #texas
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From MeidasTouch.com
5:32 PM · May 24, 2022
Edit: Thanks to those in the comments who found a link the YouTube version.
What's been going on in Budapest is chilling to say the least.
No pay wall link: https://archive.ph/WMtkZ
Even though most US media has been locked out of attending in person, it's ridiculous the tiny amount of coverage this has received. Because US media has been locked out, this should be covered more in the news. Big blaring warning claxons should be going off everywhere.
Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media’
The Guardian, no reg/pay wall: https://archive.ph/8N8sp
Wake up, US media. You are also in the crosshairs, sweeties.
Yep. Media is the real problem.
Any pushback is going to have to come from people who are speaking directly to that media.
Who can even take this question seriously?
That's called giving birth, jackass.
What a sad farce that we are all being forced to deal with the idiocy of people so painfully, deliberately ignorant and disrespectful. Hats off to Dr. Robinson. My head would have exploded with rage.
Thank you for posting this, doublethink.
I missed this a few days ago (yikes, sorry about that) and ran across it while cleaning out browser tabs. Boy am I glad I did. Jane Elliott is brilliant, knowledgeable, and right on point. I hope folks do take five minutes for this, because it is a very important element of the RW racism credo. The "birth dearth" idea is not new, nor is it just an incidental item on the Republican party doomsday checklist.
It took a second while watching the clip, but then I remembered. Jane Elliot is the school teacher who originated the Blue-Eyes-Brown-Eyes exercise in her classroom after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
48 sec. clip:
[auditorium is silent, stays seated]
You didn't understand the directions. If you white folks want to be treated the way blacks are in this society, stand.
Nobody's standing here. That says very plainly that you know what's happening, you know you don't want it for you. I want to know why you're so willing to accept it or to allow it to happen for others.
Interesting how people are allowed to protest women's health clinics,
turning a trip to the gynecologist (which is no one else's business) into a nightmare -- but when that protest hits the home of someone who's just dug into every woman's business on a national level, well how dare anyone protest that.
Boston Globe article, no paywall: https://archive.ph/0FRUH
Oh, sweetie, do hush.
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