Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:07 PM
Philosoraptor (15,004 posts)
I want all assault rifle owners to turn them in, possession of them made a felony
I won't be happy with just an assault weapons ban, I want all the people who currently own them to give them up. You can have all the damn squirrel guns, shotguns, hunting rifles, revolvers, pistols or pop guns you want, but no civilian needs a ****ing assault weapon.
And when the ATF shows up for you to voluntarily give up your military assault weapons, you'd better damn well not pull a david koresh branch davidian stunt, because our constitutionally guaranteed, well regulated militia, the U.S. Army has more guns than anyone else.
You can keep your Bibles, and you can keep your religion, and you can keep your pornography and you can keep your paranoia and your racism and your hatred too, but you have to give up your precious, masturbatory assault machine guns.
It should be the law of the land. All civilians turn in your assault rifles, voluntarily, patriotically, peacefully, you don't need them, our soldiers do.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022050448#post17Okay! You heard the man. Cough 'em up!
What DUmmy mopaul wants, DUmmy mopaul gets!
I wonder what DUmpmonkeys would think if you took an AR-15 and replaced every bit of cheap ugly plastic with extra-fancy walnut.
Would it still be an assault riffle?
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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:10 PM
atreides1 (9,887 posts)
4. And as my mother used to tell me.
The devils in hell want ice water!
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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:11 PM
Taverner (51,156 posts)
5. The only way you could do that, without armed insurrection, would be to buy them back
And GENEROUSLY buy them back
That's what Australia did
They paid up to triple MSRP to buy them back
I'm sure that would work.
If you offer triple market price for any gun someone wants to get rid of, you'd hurt the gun show business, but nothing else.
The DUmp has a weapons expert:
Response to Philosoraptor (Original post)
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:22 PM
AZ Progressive (233 posts)
11. Assault Rifles like the AR-15 anyway can be easily converted into automatic
Not even semi-automatic assault rifles should be permitted.
That's the same thing as an assault riffle, right?
And all you need to do is file down that little sear thingy, right?
Response to AZ Progressive (Reply #11)
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:34 PM
Recursion (19,758 posts)
16. They can be converted into helicopters too
It's terrifying.
Response to Philosoraptor (Original post)
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:26 PM
Lizzie Poppet (1,264 posts)
13. Can't always get what you want.
I think a noted British philosopher once said something along those lines...
As for the rest of your screed, virtually nothing in it bears the slightest resemblance to reality. Hard to know where to start.
First, the ATF is not the military. They have nothing to do with each other, and the latter is forbidden by law to act in matters of domestic law enforcement. That law exists for a damn good reason.
Next, the military isn't the "well regulated militia." One can make the case that the National Guard is part of the militia, but the regular military is just that: the regular military. They're not the same thing.
As for "my" Bibles, religion, pornography, paranoia, and hated, I have none of the above. I'm an atheist, a rather hard-core liberal (a confirmed socialist), a feminist, and my mental health's just fine, thanks. Keep your inane, borderline-slanderous assumptions to yourself, pal.
Loved this gem: "assault machine guns." You really don't know the first thing about firearms, do you?
Oh, and one last thing: "All civilians turn in your assault rifles, voluntarily, patriotically, peacefully, you don't need them, our soldiers do." No, not really. They have plenty of their own. Civilians don't have "assault rifles," save in very, very small numbers. They have millions of semi-automatic rifles and carbines that look like actual assault rifles, but don't actually operate like assault rifles (which can fire in fully-automatic mode, like a machine gun; the civilian ones can't).
Still, as uninformed-but-hysterical rants go, that one was top notch. I'm sure you feel much better now...
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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 06:23 PM
Rosco T. (5,767 posts)
30. Suggest you look up the concept of an "ex post facto" law
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then Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3
then rethink
