04-05-2013, 01:29 PM
Mac-A-Matic wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
If I understand you correctly, you're convinced Obama furthers gun restrictions by making guns appear worse than they are, by falsely attributing Lanza as using a more dangerous gun than he used or even, from a practical standpoint, could have used due to existing tougher regs on automatics.
Again I ask, how does this process work? Do people refer back to the speech and say, "Remember Lanza? He used an automatic weapon.' And more and more people do this, no one recognizes the obvious factual error and the next thing you know all guns are outlawed?
Looks like you laid it out better than I did. It's how the "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" came to be named and how semi-automatic weapons have become "assault weapons" in the lexicon.
Semi-automatic weapons are exceedingly good at assaulting, as one of your quotes above indicates. Hence the modern reference that doesn't ignore how they're used. Or perhaps I'm wrong and you really need those LCM's to conclusively take care of Bambi each season.
Mac-A-Matic wrote: [quote=deckeda]
At what point does the falsehood become ineffective at helping further gun restrictions? Never? After a while? How about ... yesterday.
Falsehood? The "esteemed" author of the "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013", Senator Feinstein doesn't seem above trying just that:
FactCheck.org wrote:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has introduced a bill to institute a new ban on assault weapons, claimed the 1994 ban “was effective at reducing crime.” That’s not correct either. The study concluded that “we cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence.”
http://www.factcheck.org/2013/02/did-the...-ban-work/
My question was clearly about what the President said, not about something I couldn't have known you were going to reply about instead. You're still drifting.
That FactCheck link was nevertheless interesting. I can include some quotes from it you neglected to include in your posts if you like, like ones that mentioned Feinstein's comments, "The study found 'clear indications that the use of assault weapons in crime did decline after the ban went into effect' and that assault weapons were becoming rarer as the years passed (this is the part of the study Feinstein seized on)."