04-04-2013, 09:53 PM
Black wrote:
What exactly would the intent of such a lie be? Can you help us apologists make some kind of sense out of your outrage?
Exactly. If he had intended to mislead, then he wouldn't have said "semiautomatic" and then followed it with "fully automatic weapon in that case"* which is the quote in swampy's post. If swampy's quote is accurate then all we are left with is some puzzlement as to what this qualification was about.
In fact, the right wing story makes zero sense whatsoever, since if Lanza used a fully automatic weapon then it would WEAKEN Obama's stance on gun control since those weapons are already illegal and gun nuts could say "see, legislation against semiautos wouldn't have helped one bit. The right wing gun nuts are the last people who should be pointing out that Obama may have misspoken since doing so dilutes their arguments. They should instead be all saying "Yeah! What the black kenyan president guy said!"
*note that I don't vouch for the accuracy of swampy's post since she has been known in the past to post "quotes" that do not reflect what somebody actually said.