Obama lies again

[davester]

SDGuy wrote:
Misrepresenting semi-automatic firearms as machines guns has been a common tactic with the left since at least the early 1990s...the ignorant masses believe it, and clamor for laws to outlaw access to "assault style weapons", thinking that machine guns are easily obtainable by anyone at the corner gunstore.

This is a straw man without factual basis. Certainly, most people don't know the difference, and in many cases the difference is pretty close to irrelevant when you consider that a handheld machine gun can only be fired in short bursts and is virtually equalled in killing power by a semiauto slightly modified to allow rapid fire. You are arguing semantics that are irrelevant.

SDGuy wrote: I also notice that the original disclaimer, "style", isn't even used anymore - we now have "assault weapon" and "assault rifle" as part of the vernacular - completely ignoring the origins and original meaning of the word as referencing selective-fire rifles, thus leaving no distinction between truly full-automatic and semi-automatic firearms.

Is this "style" thing something you made up, or what?...not that it matters much. Gun nuts seem to revel in the fact that "assault weapon" is a vague term and that its vagueness or somehow using imprecise nomenclature somehow vindicates their vilifying of laws designed to get highly deadly weapons of use for nothing other than mass slaughter of humans out of the public's hands. The rapid-fire characteristics of many of the popular weapons of today have only one practical value...to mass slaughter whatever it is you're shooting at before the slaughterees can escape. Human or animal, neither is justified.